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A further characteristic of the role of the facilitator in the social constructivist viewpoint, is that the instructor and the learners are equally involved in learning from each other as well ( Holt and Willard-Holt 2000 ).

This means that the learning experience is both subjective and objective and requires that the instructor ’ s culture, values and background become an essential part of the interplay between learners and tasks.

Learners compare their version of the truth with that of the instructor and fellow learners to get to a new, socially tested version of truth ( Kukla 2000 ).

The task or problem is thus the interface between the instructor and the learner ( McMahon 1997 ).

This creates a dynamic interaction between task, instructor and learner.

This entails that learners and instructors should develop an awareness of each other's viewpoints and then look to their own beliefs, standards and values, thus being both subjective and objective at the same time ( Savery 1994 ).