Quote: Bredo

"[T]here always seems to be a new effort on the horizon to identify the right conceptual level to capture thinking or learning in a scientific net. Although each new model or metaphor, or each new level of analysis -- genetic, individual, socio-cultural, or some other -- adds something to our understanding, each is limited. Problems arise when a given approach is confused with the way things are... The attempt to reduce human behavior to a particular model may also lead to practical harm. It leads, primarily, to treating people as though they were limited in the says in which the model is limited" (Bredo, 2006, pp. 54-55).

Bredo, E. (2006). Conceptual confusion and educational psychology. In P. A. Alexander, & P. H. Winne (Eds.), Handbook of educational psychology (2nd ed., pp. 43-55). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.