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Constructivism and Learning
Many critics say that constructivist teaching is somewhat child-centered, caring, inclusive, or based on enquiry, discovery, or any kind of active involvement from the learners.
Most of these articles and books have a low precision on the definition of the term but they all seem to associate the term with something unquestionably positive.
Some call constructivism a new orthodoxy, a fad and a fashion, a movement, or even a religion.
Reference to Jean Piaget
Individual and cognitive constructivism.
Reference to Lev Vygotsky
Social constructivism.
Some use
The term simple, mild, or even naive constructivism.
Constructivism: The Construction of What?
Children construct their own knowledge.
Scientific knowledge is socially constructed.
Teaching Constructivist Science (book):
Is about constructivist methods of teaching, the title may suggest that the authors claim that science itself is constructed.
Constructivism and Learning – Core Ideas
Constructivist claims of The analysis of Taber
Learning is something done by the learner, not something that is imposed on him.
Learners come to the learning situation with existing ideas about many phenomena.
Learners have their own individual ideas about the world and supported by metaphors.They also often function well as tools to understand many phenomena.
Accepted scientific ideas and some of them may be persistent and hard to change.
Knowledge is represented in the brain as conceptual structures.
Teachers have to take the learner’s existing ideas seriously if they want to change or challenge these.
The learners construct their knowledge through their interaction with the physical world, collaboratively in social settings and in a cultural and linguistic environment.
Piaget and Constructivism
For understand Piaget’s theories, one must know which age of Piaget one has in mind.
Some of his books were rather badly translated.
Some of his books were rather badly translated.
Such factors may also have added to the confusion over his ideas.
One might say that Piaget’s strong interdisciplinary orientation was his strength, but it was also his problem because it made his thinking difficult to access for people with a more typical academic background.
Piagetian Constructivism Emerges
Piaget’s theories were discovered by science educators in the early 1970s.
Psychomotor, the intuitive, and the concrete operational and the formal operational stage soon became part of educational terminology.
For example
Educators developed written tests that they used to classify the learners by their Piagetian level.
This model became very influential for a long period.
Constructivism and Children’s Ideas
Children’s ideas for all thinkable phenomena were studied in great detail.
Qualitative as well as quantitative.
The research on children’s ideas
Often under the theoretical umbrella of constructivism and/or conceptual from the early 1980s.
Constructivism: Widening the Perspective
The influence from Piaget is evident in nearly all the written reference to constructivism, especially in the early phases.
Constructivism has, developed from such a Piagetian perspective.
Has drawn on other theorists who put more stress on social and cultural conditions for learning.
Many books have been written where Piaget and Vygotsky are seen as more or less as opposites. It may be more productive to note some fundamental similarities.
Piaget was interested in epistemology and knowledge per se.
Vygotsky was more interested in understanding the social and cultural conditions for human learning.
Yeny Paola Correa Castro. 1002523374. Language Acquisition Theories.
