I present a constructivist approach that is used in some TE mathematics classes at MSU. This approach employs exclusively a model of a 'mathematical situation', a set of physical operations and a physical language to reason about all students’ mathematical doings while a unique system of reinforcements, grading and assessment methods, support the learning experience.

The purpose of the current study was to compare the use of virtual discussion boards in various educational settings in the United States and Costa Rica. Participants included professors of education, in-service and pre-service teachers in the United States and Costa Rica where a survey was used that included demographic, knowledge, attitude, and behavioral questions regarding the use of virtua...

This article is written in response to a recent report on a review of teacher education in Scotland undertaken by Graham Donaldson (2011). In particular it questions the recommendation that engaging teachers in professional enquiry and research-informed teaching is the way forward for developing the professional capabilities required of “21 Century teachers”. The report reflects an increasing e...

This extended abstract introduces the foundational notions behind constructive memory. The work demonstrates these concepts through computational implementations. Memory in a computational system is usually taken to be a place filled with things called “memories". These places are indexed by either knowing its physical location or its content. For situated design agents, however, memory is a re...

Constructive logic is an alternative to the theory of classical logic that draws a direct relation between an assertion and its existence. Some of the few important differences between a classical proof and a constructionist proof include the avoidance of proof by contradiction and the rejection of the law of the excluded middle. However, given the possibility that constructive logic is an alte...

The authors present a new approach to culture and cognition, which focuses on the dynamics through which specific pieces of cultural knowledge (implicit theories) become operative in guiding the construction of meaning from a stimulus. Whether a construct comes to the fore in a perceiver's mind depends on the extent to which the construct is highly accessible (because of recent exposure). In a ...

This paper reviews the inventiveness of faculty combined with the resources of the World-Wide-Web in creating a just-in-time course for seniors studying e-Business. Additionally, the instructor incorporated cooperative learning adhering to a constructivist teaching approach. Adherence to just-in-time teaching using cooperative learning following a constructivist approach supports the goals of r...

This Article examines treaty body compliance discourse through an examination of the CEDAW Committee’s jurisprudence related to sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on the constructivist literature and the sociological framing literature, Part I of this article introduces adoption and adaptation as key features for domestically enforcing treaty obligations. Part I also introduces the CEDAW Committee com...

This is a revised version of a paper which, as an anonymous reviewer guessed, was written some time ago; in fact I wrote it in 1990/ 91 for the 2nd International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science in Science Teaching . Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, 1992. Much has happened since then in the philosophy of mathematics, especially regarding the “naturalization” of the high...