PTAs can be combined with a pedagogy that recognises the value of students’ prior knowledge
and experience (experiential learning) and guides them through a personal learning process by
focusing their efforts on questions that they have generated (inquiry-based learning).
PTAs can help promote and document shifts in thinking and personal epistemologies, especially
when a critical approach is introduced that contrasts with a mainstream traditional one.
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