Constructivism

Constructivism

Introduction

Constructivism is a stream of pedagogy based on the constructivist theory of knowledge. Apply the need to deliver the student tools (generate scaffolding) that allow it to create its own procedures to resolve a problematic situation, which means that their ideas are modified and keep learning. The educational constructivism proposes a paradigm where the teaching is perceived and performed as dynamic, participative and interactive the subject, so that knowledge is a real building operated by the learner (the “knower “). Constructivism in education as didactic concept applies in the action-oriented teaching. (Jonassen, 2010)

It considers the student possessing knowledge, based on which will build new knowledge. It puts the basis genetic and hereditary in a higher position or above knowledge. That is, from the background of the students, the teachers guide students to achieve significant new knowledge building, and they are the main actors of their own learning. An education system that takes constructivism as online psychology aims to carry out a change in education at all levels. (Snowman, etal, 2011)

Discussion

Forms of Constructivism

Student learns with their own views and ideas about the world. Teacher acts primarily as an organizer of learning and cognitive and research students without imposing my knowledge and belief. Teacher appreciates independent, not always correct, the reasoning of students, “smart” questions, consciously corrected their mistakes, assesses all products of educational-cognitive activity of pupils, showing not only the learning outcomes, but also the efforts made by the students to the design of new knowledge, and his progress in learning, monitoring and evaluation carried out in close connection with. as really the ongoing process of learning, students most of the time as in the classroom, and in homework, work in small groups, teams or pairs.

Trivial Constructivism

It is the simplest form of constructivism. It claims that the knowledge is keenly constructed by ...