a little more Ben-Ari, connecting social constructivism with the teacher

needing to know about student conceptualizations
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 \chapter{Research Perspective and Epistemological Framework}
 
-The work of others has contributed to the research perspective and the epistemological framework\footnote{In the psychological sense, rather than that of Brouwer}.
+This work is a phenomenographic study, adopting the epistemological framework of social constructivism.
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+The work of others has contributed to both the research perspective and the epistemological framework\footnote{In the psychological sense, rather than that of Brouwer}.
 
 Marton developed the phenomenographic research perspective, which is broadly applicable to education.
 
 Many researchers have contributed to the literature on educating students in the use of proof.
 
 Significant work has been done on teaching computer science students about mathematical proof.
 
+By choosing this particular version of social constructivism, we inherit the situation described by Ben-Ari\cite{ben1998constructivism}:
+"The task of the teacher is significantly more difficult than in the classical paradigm, because the guidance must be based on, the understanding of each student's currently existing cognitive structures. "
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diff --git a/literature.bib b/literature.bib
@@ -957,7 +957,8 @@ publisher={Elsevier}
   number={3-4},
   pages={327--342},
   year={1994},
-  publisher={Springer}
+  publisher={Springer},
+  annote={looks really good, is not free}
 }
 @article{selden1995unpacking,
   title={Unpacking the logic of mathematical statements},

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