Discuss the significance of the quotation that opens this chapter: “The most important factor infl-uencing learning is what the learner already knows.”   In Chapter 1, the point was made that our...

Discuss the significance of the quotation that opens this chapter: “The most important factor infl-uencing learning is what the learner already knows.”

In Chapter 1, the point was made that our beliefs about science and about teaching science, together with our metaphoric perspective of teaching, exert a strong influence on how we approach teaching elementary science. Discuss this proposition in terms of constructivist theory.