Discovery theory practice and problems roger s haydock david f herr home worldcat home about worldcat help search search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library create lists bibliographies and reviews or search worldcat find items in libraries near you . Buy a cheap copy of discovery theory practice and book by david f herr free shipping over 10 skip to content search button categories featured collectibles movies tv blog education reference books textbooks share to facebook share to pinterest share to twitter isbn 0316351628 isbn13 9780316351621 discovery theory practice and problems by david f herr and roger s . The discovery learning myth has been adopted all around the world by both educators and laypeople primarily because discovery learning sounds so logical in theory unfortunately there is an incredibly large corpus of research showing that 1 minimally instructive methods tax the learners cognitive resources to such a large extent that learning is impeded 2 solving problems in a . What is discovery learning discovery learning was introduced by jerome bruner and is a method of inquiry based instruction this popular theory encourages learners to build on past experiences and knowledge use their intuition imagination and creativity and search for new information to discover facts correlations and new truths. Hence creation theory can be regarded as a logical theoretical alternative to discovery theory for explaining the actions that entrepreneurs take to form and exploit opportunities alvarez and barney 2007 venkataraman 2003 unlike discovery theory creation theory is the least studied theory and thus has to be articulated as a single coherent theory in the literature particularly in a