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Social Sciences - Education / Pedagogy | | English term or phrase: flies | | Next, our narrative implies that there are correct answers towards which the system, and the students it contains, converge. This flies in the face of some constructivists insistence that the imposition of objective goals towards which students are to move is counterproductive to the construction of understanding. |
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| | contradiz, vai contra | Explanation:
fly in the face of someone or something and fly in the teeth of someone or something
Fig. to challenge someone or something; to go against someone or something. This idea flies in the face of everything we know about matter and energy. You had better not fly in the face of the committee. |
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  Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
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| Grading comment Obrigado, Salvador e Gry.
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Explanation:
fly in the face of someone or something and fly in the teeth of someone or something
Fig. to challenge someone or something; to go against someone or something. This idea flies in the face of everything we know about matter and energy. You had better not fly in the face of the committee.
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