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One can classify the whole range of pedagogical practices in two groups: on the one hand, those where the teacher alone speaks: I shall call these expository methods: on the other, those where the teacher questions his students: I shall call these interrogative methods.
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Gohau, G. (1981). Difficulties Inherent in a Pedagogy of Discovery in the Teaching of the Sciences. In: Grmek, M.D., Cohen, R.S., Cimino, G. (eds) On Scientific Discovery. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1284-3_9
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