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The first of four levels in Deanna Kuhn's model of the development of epistemological understanding

"In the realist stage the child simply accepts that assertions made by others report the world as it is" (Taber, 2020)

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Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.