Students and Their Teacher in a Didactical Situation

Giving students the space to actively participate in the introduction of new knowledge through their own independent discovery is one of the demands of pedagogical theory and curricular documents. For example, Czech official pedagogical documents demand that pupils develop their problem solving competence by “making use of the acquired knowledge to discover/identify various ways of a problem solution” (Framework Education Programme for Basic Education, 2007, p. 12).