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CTET 1 Mar 2026 Paper 1, Question 30

Topic: Child-centred education

Q30

Constructivist approaches of knowledge construction encourage students to :

  1. (1) Rote-memorize the content.
  2. (2) Interact and collaborate with peers.Correct answer
  3. (3) Follow singular way of solving a problem.
  4. (4) Cast-off their cultural understandings.

Solution.

CBSE answer: (2)

Answer: (2) Interact and collaborate with peers.

  1. Constructivism, especially its social form, holds that knowledge is built through interaction and shared meaning-making.
  2. Discussing and working with peers lets children test and refine their ideas.
  3. Rote memory (1), a single method (3) and discarding culture (4) all go against constructivist learning.

Trap: (4) children's cultural knowledge is a resource to build on.