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Jerome Bruner (who is credited with introducing Vygotsky to the West), its attention to pre-existing ideas and understanding clearly has a lot to offer in post-compulsory education — most dramatically perhaps in the area of resistance to learning. Constructivist assumptions are also implicit in the notion of learning through reflection in professional practice.
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Constructivism is the label given to a set of theories about learning which fall somewhere between cognitive and humanistic views.
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Constructivism — particularly in its "social" forms — suggests that the learner is much more actively involved in a joint enterprise with the teacher of creating ("constructing") new meanings.
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- "cognitive constructivism" which is about how the individual learner understands things, in terms of developmental stages and learning styles, and
- "social constructivism", which emphasises how meanings and understandings grow out of social encounters—see Vygotsky below.
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The role of the teacher is to enter into a dialogue with the learner, trying to understand the meaning to that learner of the material to be learned, and to help her or him to refine their understanding until it corresponds with that of the teacher.
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Dewey, On Dewey: this site as a whole is invaluable—bookmark itwho emphasised the place of experience in education.
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Piaget, who demonstrated empirically that children’s minds were not empty, but actively processed the material with which they were presented, and postulated the mechanisms of accommodation and assimilation as key to this processing
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in his theory of the "Zone of Proximal Development" (ZPD). "Proximal" simply means "next". He observed that when children were tested on tasks on their own, they rarely did as well as when they were working in collaboration with an adult.
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Hence, for him, the development of language and articulation of ideas was central to learning and development.
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- "cognitive constructivism" which is about how the individual learner understands things, in terms of developmental stages and learning styles, and
- "social constructivism", which emphasises how meanings and understandings grow out of social encounters—see Vygotsky below.
Constructivism is the label given to a set of theories about learning which fall somewhere between cognitive and humanistic views. If behaviourism treats the organism as a black box, cognitive theory recognises the importance of the mind in making sense of the material with which it is presented. Nevertheless, it still presupposes that the role of the learner is primarily to assimilate whatever the teacher presents. Constructivism — particularly in its "social" forms — suggests that the learner is much more actively involved in a joint enterprise with the teacher of creating ("constructing") new meanings.
We can distinguish between
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Vygotsky
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"Zone of Proximal Development" (ZPD).
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Julie CooperWebsite on social constructivism. Includes links to the ideas of Dewey and Vygotsky, and a workshop on social constructivism
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Staci PalacinoCognitive Constructivism and Social Constructivism, Vygotsky.
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It was by no means always the case that the adult was teaching them how to perform the task, but that the process of engagement with the adult enabled them to refine their thinking or their performance to make it more effective.
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Danielle Commonsdiscusses similarities and differences between the constructivist theory and the cognitive theory
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flcsiuConstructivist approach
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Amy PhilipGood information on Vygotsky's "zone of proximal developmnt" with regards to social constructivism.
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Jen HammondsHighlighting Constructivism in Learning http://bit.ly/fy7AUG #ASDPD #Education
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The key to "stretching" the learner is to know what is in that person's ZPD—what comes next, for them.
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Constructivist assumptions are also implicit in the notion of learning through reflection in professional practice.
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kimberly caise""cognitive constructivism" which is about how the individual learner understands things, in terms of developmental stages and learning styles, and"
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Joan Vinall-CoxAll the authors/theorists I resonate with are listed in this article!
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The emphasis is on the learner as an active "maker of meanings".
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One strand of constructivism may be traced to the writings of John Dewey, On Dewey: this site as a whole is invaluable—bookmark itwho emphasised the place of experience in education.
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the work of Piaget
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Personal Construct theory of George Kelly
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But the most significant bases of a social constructivist theory were laid down by Vygotsky [1896-1934] (1962), in his theory of the "Zone of Proximal Development"
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the process of engagement with the adult enabled them to refine their thinking or their performance to make it more effective. Hence, for him, the development of language and articulation of ideas was central to learning and development.
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clear links between the idea of the ZPD and Winnicott's "potential space"
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The social dimension of learning is also central to the idea of situated learning and communities of practice,
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Jerome Bruner (who is credited with introducing Vygotsky to the West
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Doris PymbleConstructivism is the label given to a set of theories about learning which fall somewhere between cognitive and humanistic views. If behaviourism treats the organism as a black box, cognitive theory recognises the importance of the mind in making sense o
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"cognitive constructivism" which is about how the individual learner understands things, in terms of developmental stages and learning styles, and
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Shari Lynnexplanation of Vgotsky's contriburtion to Social Constructivism
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Carmen WeaverThis site has a great simplified contrast of Cognitive Constructivism and Social Constructivism.
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