See also assimilation and accommodation, Bullock Report, child-centred learning, constructivism, creativity in English, Early Years language and literacy, English projects, hobbies and English, metaphors in education, history of English teaching,...

†Fredrik Barth, with his colleagues, in a seminal collection Ethnic Groups and Boundaries, treated ethnicity as a continuing ascription which classifies a person in terms of their most general and inclusive identity, presumptively determined by...

See also assimilation and accommodation, language and thought This is a theory of learning in which it is claimed that we form mental representations or ‘constructions’ from our experience of the world. Learning involves the continual...

Constructivism may be considered an epistemology (a philosophical framework or theory of learning)(Jean Piaget, 1967), which argues humans construct meaning from current knowledge structures. These arguments about the nature of human learning guide...