Social Constructisim

Radical Constructisim
Cultural
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Constructisim

Cultural Constructisim
Personal Constructisim

AGBU, ARNOLD JR.

CARALOS, GARRY
DENZO, ELADIO
GALLENTES, ARCHIE
JABILLO, GERALD
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• https://globalsocialtheory.org/concepts/critical-
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• GOOGLE IMAGES
REPORT OUTLINE
Introduction
Contributors of Constructivism
5 Areas/Theories of Constructivism
Generalization
Evaluation
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OBJECTIVES To become cognizant in
the development of
To build understanding critical thinking skills,
and meaning of analysis, evaluation
constructivism as the and creation.
learning process of the To identify and
learners. synthesize skills to
acquire based on their
needs in the learning
process of the learners.
 INTRODUCTION

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What is constructivism in the
classroom?
Constructivism is the learning
Constructivist teaching is based on
theory found in the psychology
the belief that learning occurs as
which explains how people
learners are actively involved in the
might acquire knowledge and
process of meaning and knowledge
learn. Constructivism has direct
construction as opposed to
application to education.
passively receiving information.
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 WHY TEACH?

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Constructivist sees to develop
intrinsically motivated and
independent learners
adequately equipped with
learning skills for them to be
able to construct knowledge
and make meaning of them.

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 WHAT TO TEACH?
They are taught processes and
skills such as searching, critiquing
and evaluating information,
relating these pieces of
information, reflecting on the
same, making meaning out of
them, drawing insights, posing
questions, researching and
constructing new knowledge out
of these bits of information
learned.
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 HOW TO TEACH?

In the constructivist classroom,

the teacher provides students
with data or experiences that
allow them to hypothesize,
predict, manipulate objects,
pose questions, research,
investigate, imagine, and
invent.
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 CONTRIBUTORS OF CONSTRUCTIVISM
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Lev Vygotsky Jean Piaget John Dewey Jerome Bruner

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✓ "new psychology“

✓ Developmental
psychology
✓ He believed one must
understand its genesis
Lev Vygotsky
✓ The majority of his work involved the study of
infant and child behavior, as well as the
development of language acquisition (such as
the importance of pointing and inner speech)
and the development of concepts
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✓ Child development
✓ Theory of cognitive development
and epistemological view are
together called "genetic
epistemology”.
✓ Importance on the education of
children. Jean Piaget
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✓ American philosopher, psychologist,
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and educational reformer.
✓ Influential in education and social
reform.
✓ He is regarded as one of the most
prominent American scholars in the
first half of the twentieth century.
John Dewey
✓ Dewey continually argues that education and learning
are social and interactive processes, and thus the
school itself is a social institution through which
social reform can and should take place
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✓ American psychologist
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and cognitive learning theory

in educational psychology
✓ Senior research fellow at the New
York University School of Law.
✓ One of the pioneers of cognitive
psychology in the United States,
which began through his own early Jerome Bruner
research on sensation and
perception as being active, rather
than passive processes.
✓ Bruner published the book A Study of Thinking,
which formally initiated the study of cognitive
psychology.
CONTRIBUTORS OF CONSTRUCTIVISM
CONSTRUCTIVISM
Trivial/Personal constructivism
Critical Constructivism
Cultural Constructivism
Social constructivism
Radical constructivism
 Trivial/Personal constructivism

The learners take on an active

role in constructing knowledge
rather than passively receiving
knowledge.

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 Critical Constructivism

Extends and adjust

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nothing represents an
objective, neutral perspective.

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 Cultural Constructivism

Asserts that knowledge and

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two independent cultures will

likely form different
observational methodologies.

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Social interactions especially
language is the primary means
by which new knowledge is
constructed.
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This allows each learners
knowledge construct to be
unique. So, as the new
knowledge is constructed in the
learners, the brain is in a
constant state of adaptation.

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 Activity
Get a piece of paper and the build/construct/draw
something that will define the current profession or job.

✓ Analysis ✓ Abstraction ✓ Application

The purpose of the The learning skills The learner will
activity is to build a gained by the learner explain how the
learner’s ability to becomes imaginative constructed
construct knowledge because they will share learning applies in
from different these to others and at the present life.
experiences. To acquire some point, gives us
information from inspiring thoughts.
encounters or events.
 GENERALIZATION
Compare to the traditional teaching strategy,
constructivism highlights the personal
acquisition of knowledge and understanding
by the learner through meaningful
experiences. Learners has many ways of
acquiring that learning, not only confine by
what the teachers fed, but what the learner
experience.
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