Which of the following statements about children’s thinking is NOT correct?

Contemporary theories of children's cognitive development — most notably Piaget's constructivism and Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory, which underpin India's National Curriculum Framework — describe children as active constructors of knowledge: they build their own explanatory theories about the world, are intrinsically curious, and learn primarily through exploration, rather than as passive recipients of information transmitted by a teacher.

Applying this principle to the given statements: describing children as constructing their own theories, actively exploring phenomena, and being born curious are all consistent expressions of this active, constructivist view of children's thinking. The statement that children cannot think of concepts on their own, with the teacher's primary role being to supply information, reverses this relationship — it casts children as passive receivers and the teacher as the sole source of knowledge, which is precisely the transmission model that constructivist theory rejects.

• "Children construct their own theories about various phenomena around them" — consistent with constructivism (active theory-building).

• "Children cannot think of concepts on their own and the primary role of teachers is to provide information" — inconsistent with constructivism (passive-reception / transmission model).

• "Children actively think about various phenomena around them and have an urge to explore" — consistent with constructivism (active exploration).

• "Children are born with curiosity to learn about the world around them" — consistent with constructivism (innate curiosity).

Therefore, the statement that children cannot think of concepts on their own and that the teacher's primary role is to provide information is the one that is NOT correct.