kills. Discussions among students and between students and their
             instructors, on the other hand, tends to create the kind of engaged
             practice in critical thinking that nurses will need throughout their
             While there are certainly dozens of slightly different definitions
             of the idea of Constructivism - and its opposite, the kind of traditional
             classroom in which the teacher took the active role and students were
             expected simply to absorb the information given to them - these different
             definitions overlap in large measure. A traditional approach to teaching
             may be summarized in the following way:
             Traditional education sees intelligence as inherent in the
             human mind and therefore in no need of being learned. This would
             mean that it is proper for school to teach facts, ideas, and
             values on the assumption that human beings (of any age) are
             endowed by nature with the ability to use them (Kafai & Resnick,
             Constructivist teaching makes the practice of both teaching and learning
             more opaque and more subject to scrutiny. Con
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