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Definition: constructivism from Dictionary of Psychological Testing, Assessment and Treatment

The argument that learning is not objective and factual but is inevitably shaped and even biased by the learner’s prior experience, the context in which the learning takes place, etc.

CONSTRUCTIVISM

From Dictionary of Visual Discourse: A Dialectical Lexicon of Terms
Or ‘constructionism'. Both a philosophical outlook and a perspective in social theory informed by the principle that ‘ All knowledge is constructed (relative, conditioned) but some knowledge(s) is (are) more constructed than others’ . There are thus weak and strong variants of constructivism. Weak constructivism is the elementary hypothesis that directs inquiry to conceptual, linguistic and cultural factors involved in the social organization of experience. More extreme variants, however, dogmatically assert that: ‘Since all reality is artefactual, we are prisoners of our constructions.’ If reality is a sociohistorical construction, it follows that there are an indefinite number of historical ‘worlds’ organized as plausibility structures correlated to specific historical agencies, societal machineries and communication technologies. The seminal idea of constructivism - verum ipsum factum convertuntur - can be traced from Giambattista Vico through Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Piaget, …
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From Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology
Constructivism is the theory that humans construct their own realities based on their experiences and create their own knowledge and understanding of the world. Constructivist psychology includes a variety of different approaches, all of which view human knowledge as deriving from active…
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From The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Design Since 1900
Was an artistic movement that emerged in Russia immediately after the Revolution in 1917 and lasted until approximately 1922. It was the product of work, in particular by Vladimir TATLIN , Kasimir MALEVICH , Aleksandr RODCHENKO , EL LISSITZKY , Naum Gabo, Antoine Pevsner and Wassily Kandinsky, in…
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From The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism
Inspired by Soviet painter and architect Vladimir Tatlin's three-dimensional constructions (1919–20), the Constructivist movement was established in the USSR in 1921. The Constructivists were especially keen on developing ABSTRACT images inspired by Tatlin's model for the Monument for the Third…
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From The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
as a mod. art movement first emerged among Rus. painters around 1913 and included such artists as Vladimir Tatlin and Naum Gabo; the new trend spread to Western Europe in the early 1920s. The constructivists called for the union of art with science and technology. Gradually, the movement's ideas…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Abstract art movement that originated in Russia in about 1914 and subsequently had great influence on Western art. Constructivism usually involves industrial materials such as glass, steel, and plastic in clearly defined arrangements, but the term is difficult to define precisely, as the meaning…
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From A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
(c. late 1910s) In the decade after World War I, this term was, like FUTURISM, adopted by two groups –one in Russia, the other in Western Europe –whose aims were sufficiently different to distinguish between them. Coming in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution, most Soviet Constructivists were…
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From Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory
Constructivism refers to the notion according to which knowledge results from a process based on mental operations, or judgments, or the capacity of judgment. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) proposed that the theoretic or pure capacity of judgment be based on a priori synthetic judgements of space and…
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From World of Sociology, Gale
Constructivism, a loosely organized movement of thought, is critical of the assertion that absolute truths and ahistorical knowledge exist. Instead, it maintains the belief that knowledge is socially constructed by human agents and cannot be understood independently of historical or cultural…
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From Encyclopedia of Ethics
A constructivist moral or political theory is a kind of normative theory that derives the basic content of its moral or political conception from a procedure of construction that incorporates appropriate standards of PRACTICAL REASON . The key to constructivism is the notion of a procedure of…
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From Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
Constructivism is a learning theory based on the notion that learners generate meaning through iterative mental formulation and reformulation of theories that satisfy the search for understanding . Constructivism has roots in various research traditions. It asks the psychological question: how is…
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