It often is prompted by new experiences. When preservice students confront their own long-held assumptions and find them to be biased or lacking in truth, disequilibrium occurs. With disequilibrium comes discomfort. Assimilation is the incorporation of new experiences into existing schemas, or ways of thinking, without altering these schemas.
Accommodation means restructuring ways of thinking to fit the new experiences.
True change, then, occurs with accommodation. All rights reserved. Disclaimer and copyright information.