Constructivism and education / edited by Marie Larochelle, Nadine Benarz and Jim Garrison.
Contributor(s): Larochelle, Marie
| Bednarz, Nadine | Garrison, James W.
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BookPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998Description: xii, 305 p. : ill ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0521621356.Subject(s): Constructivism (Education) | Teaching | TeachersDDC classification: 370.15
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This international and interdisciplinary collection presents and discusses the many issues and educational practices that are touched on by constructivism. Drawing on perspectives from a range of different fields (ethics, mathematics education, philosophy, social psychology, science education, social studies), this book invites us to reposition ourselves in relation to the major currents that have influenced education in this century, namely pragmatism, genetic epistemology, and social interactionism. The essays call for new reflection on the questions that are central to the project of education and that, in particular, involve the validity of knowledge and types of knowledge, the compartmentalization of school subjects, the mediating role of teachers, and, above all, the ends of education. In so doing, this book relaunches the discussion on constructivism's potential for the social empowerment of groups and individuals.
Bibliography: p. 279-302 - Includes index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface
- List of contributors
- Part I Introduction
- 1 Constructivism and education: beyond the epistemological correctness
- Part II From Epistemological Constructivism to Teaching: A Variety of Views
- 2 Why constructivism must be radical Ernst von Glasersfeld
- 3 An epistemology for didactics: speculations on situating a concept
- 4 Toward a pragmatic social constructivism
- Part III Teaching Within the Constructivist Mode: Practices and Promises
- 5 Individual construction, mathematical acculturation, and the classroom community
- 6 The construction of answers to insoluble problems
- 7 Voice and perspective: hearing epistemological innovation in students' words
- 8 Constructivism-in-action: students examine their idea of science
- 9 Constructivism and ethical justification
- 10 Social studies, trivial constructivism and the politics of social knowledge
- 11 Practical knowledge and school knowledge: a constructivist representation of education
- Part IV The Mediating Role of Teachers and Teacher Education
- 12 Sociocultural perspectives on the teaching and learning of science
- 13 Remarks on the education of elementary teachers
- 14 Constructivism as a referent for reforming science education
- Part V Conclusion
- 15 Critical-constructivism and the sociopolitical agenda
- Notes
- References
- Index