Coming Up for Air: But Is It Oxygen or Phlogiston? A Response to Taber's Review of Constructivist Instruction: Success Or Failure?

Keith Taber's lucid review (Taber, 2010) of the Tobias & Duffy (2009) book presents an articulate contrast to the typically contentious and unjoined debates about pro - and anti - constructivist approaches to education. Indeed the clarity of Taber‟s summary of those approaches highlights some specific issues about which I offer a few points of disagreement in what I hope is the same spirit of constructive (but not constructivist!) criticism.