From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle

This paper is my attempt to fill up that silence with words, words I didn't have then, words that I have since come to by reflecting on my earlier experience as a studentin China and on my recent experience as a composition teacher in the United States. For in spite of the frustration and confusion I experienced growing up caught between two conflicting worlds, the conflict ultimately helped me to grow as a reader and writer(Lu, M., 1987).

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Should There Be a Three-Strikes Rule Against Pure Discovery Learning?

In many ways, guided discovery appears to offer the
best method for promoting constructivist learning. The
challenge of teaching by guided discovery is to know how
much and what kind of guidance to provide and to know
how to specify the desired outcome of learning. In some
cases, direct instruction can promote the cognitive processing
needed for constructivist learning, but in others, some
mixture of guidance and exploration is needed (Mayer, R., 2004)

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AN INSTRUCTIVE ARTICLE ON MEZIROW'S TRANFORMATIONAL LEARNING THEORY

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