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Is tolerance really teaching?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2015

Lisa G. Rapaport
Lisa G. Rapaport*
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634. lrapapo@clemson.eduhttp://www.clemson.edu/cafls/departments/biosci/faculty_staff/rapaport_l.html
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Abstract

Kline succeeds in demonstrating the value of an approach that integrates information from various scientific and social disciplines, but her framework does not uniformly provide clarity. Specifically, inclusion of situations in which knowledgeable individuals do not actively donate information is misguided. Passive tolerance by demonstrators should continue to be excluded from definitions of teaching, in order to focus on situations in which selection has favored behaviors that are specifically geared to promoting learning in others.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e57
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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