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Eleanor Duckworth is a constructivist educator and a cognitive psychologist. Her  main ideas of teaching learning include the ideas that the child brings in her own knowledge and experience as well as the need for a sufficiently challenging environment for the learning to happen.  The teacher takes on the role of a facilitator for the learning as well the role of a researcher inquiring into the learning process.  In a powerful article, she argues that the having of wonderful ideas and the asking of good questions is the key to intellectual development.

Eleanor Duckworth is a constructivist educator and a cognitive psychologist. Her  main ideas of teaching learning include the ideas that the child brings in her own knowledge and experience as well as the need for a sufficiently challenging environment for the learning to happen.  The teacher takes on the role of a facilitator for the learning as well the role of a researcher inquiring into the learning process.  In a powerful article, she argues that the having of wonderful ideas and the asking of good questions is the key to intellectual development.