constructivism

Examples of constructivism in the following topics:

• What is Social Constructivism?

  • Social constructivism emphasizes the importance of culture and context in understanding what occurs in society and constructing knowledge based on this understanding (Derry, 1999; McMahon, 1997).

• General Perspectives of Social Constructivism on Learning

  • There are four general perspectives that inform how we could facilitate the learning within a framework of social constructivism (Gredler, 1997):
  • Idea-based social constructivism: Idea-based social constructivism sets education's priority on important concepts in the various disciplines (e.g. part-whole relations in mathematics, photosynthesis in science, and point of view in literature, Gredler, 1997, p.59; Prawat, 1995; Prawat & Folden, 1994).
  • Pragmatic or emergent approach: Social constructivists with this perspective assert that the implementation of social constructivism in class should be emergent as the need arises (Gredler, 1997).

• Soviet Constructivism

  • Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia in 1919 that rejected the idea of autonomous art.
  • Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919.
  • Constructivism as theory and practice was derived largely from a series of debates at INKhUK (Institute of Artistic Culture) in Moscow, from 1920–22.
  • This was opposed to the utilitarian and adaptable version of Constructivism held by Tatlin and Rodchenko.
  • The Utopian element in Constructivism was maintained by his "letatlin," a flying machine which he worked on until the 1930s.

• Social Constructivism and Instructional Models

• References

  • Social Constructivism as a Philosophy of Mathematics: Radical Constructivism
  • Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Science.
  • Social Constructivism and the World Wide Web - A Paradigm for Learning.

• Additional Resources

  • Social Constructivism and the World Wide Web - A Paradigm for Learning: http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/perth97/papers/Mcmahon/Mcmahon.html

• Assumptions of Social Constructivism

  • Social constructivism is based on specific assumptions about reality, knowledge, and learning.

• Other Forms of Cubism

  • Futurism and Constructivism developed from Cubism in Italy and Russia respectively.
  • Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia in 1919.
  • Constructivism had a great impact on modern art movements of the 20th century, influencing major trends such as Bauhaus and the De Stijl movement.
  • The First Working Group of Constructivists (including Liubov Popova, Alexander Vesnin, Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, and the theorists Aleksei Gan, Boris Arvatov and Osip Brik) developed a definition of Constructivism as the combination of faktura: the particular material properties of an object, and tektonika, its spatial presence.
  • Differentiate the artistic styles of Futurism and Constructivism from their Cubist origins.

• Sorting Out Variations on the Terms "Constructionism" and Constructivism"

  • The table below presents several variants of the terms "constructivism" and "constructionism. " Four of these are essentially philosophical perspectives about how we as learners come to know what we know, i.e., epistemologies; and one (Papert's Constructionism) is a theory of learning tied to a particular instructional strategy.
  • Social constructionism and social constructivism, for example, appear to be two different ways to talk about the same thing.
  • However, constructivism generally allows the possibility that people can derive meaning from objects in the environment as well as from social interactions; social constructionism denies that deriving meaning directly from objects is possible (Crotty, 1998).
  • Seymour Papert on Constructivism and (Papert's) Constructionism: "The word with the v expresses the theory that knowledge is built by the learner, not supplied by the teacher.

• Two Major Principles