Thursday, March 21, 2013

Constructivism


Constructivism 
Constructivism is a viewpoint in philosophy that views all of our knowledge as "constructed", under the hypothesis that it does not essentially reflect any external "transcendent" realities; it is contingent on convention, human perception, and social experience. In the philosophy of mathematics, constructivism asserts that it is necessary to find (or "construct") a mathematical object to prove that it exists. When one assumes that an object does not exist and derives a contradiction from that assumption, one still has not found the object and therefore not proved its existence, according to constructivists. Constructivism is a set of assumptions about the nature of human learning that guide constructivist learning theories and teaching methods of education. Constructivism values developmentally appropriate facilitator-supported learning that is initiated and directed by the learner. The constructivist psychologies theorize about and investigate how human beings create systems for meaningfully understanding their worlds and experiences. 

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