Rasmussen (p13) ‘Piaget explained that when a child experiences something new she will constantly try to fit this experience into existing known structures’. I think this depends on how she has been positioned, and how she has positioned herself. She may lump it in with existing UNknown structures – considering it something not knowable, or not worth knowing, or irrelevant or somebody else’s problem.

There are plenty of children in classrooms being exposed to new experiences who have positioned themselves/been positioned as stupid, or daydreamers, or footballers who are replaying a match in their heads. They do not process or, in some cases, even notice the new experience because of their positioning.