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CONSTRUCTIVISM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE: TOWARD A BETTER UNDERSTANDING James. M. Applefield, Richard Huber & Mahnaz Moallem The University of North Carolina at Wilmington Watson School of Education 601 South College Rd. Wilmington, NC 28403 Tel: 910-962-3356 Fax: 910-962-3988 2 CONSTRUCTIVISM in Practice and THEORY : TOWARD a Better Understanding Abstract Although CONSTRUCTIVISM is a concept that has been embraced my many teachers over the past 15 years, the meanings that are attached to this term are varied and often inadequately understood. Teachers need to have a sound understanding of what CONSTRUCTIVISM means to evaluate its promise and to use it knowledgeably and effectively. This paper explicates some of the theoretical background of CONSTRUCTIVISM and then presents a detailed example in which a traditional classroom lesson and a constructivist version of the same lesson are described and analyzed.
unmistakable in its central tenets and in its divergence from an objectivist tradition of learning theory based on either behaviorism (associationistic models of learning) or cognitivism (the cognitive science of information processing representations of learning).
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