Today's nursing programs are struggling to accommodate the changing needs of the health care environment and need to make changes in how students are taught. Using constructivism theory, whereby learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current or past knowledge, leaders in nursing education can make a paradigm shift toward concept-based cu...

Constructivism has gained popularity recently, but it is not a completely new learning paradigm. Much of the work within Information Systems Science (IS) and especially within elearning use Constructivism as a reference ‘discipline’ (explicitly or implicitly) but few of the works done within IS discusses thoroughly what are the basic assumptions and implications of Constructivism. As a result, ...

despite some stable factors in iran’s foreign policy , it has changed dramatically toward israel after the islamic revolution in iran. it was the case while these two countries had intensive strategic military and even economic relations before the islamic revolution. the main question this article seeks to answer is that among ir theory which of them can better explain this change in iran’s fo...

Distinct to today's society is rapid change, exemplified in the swift demands that confront professionals and working life. As this ripple challenges educational set up mold competent individuals, changes occur as education paradigm shifts. One such change Constructivism which asserts learning be an active process where learners actively build on their experiences knowledge. Students' perceptio...

1. Introduction In the last ten to fifteen years, constructivism has been central to the discussion of essential themes of modern thinking in many areas-how we know what we know, what we take to be real, what constitutes an individual or a subject, how we arrive at the meaning of a text, etc. Within the context of these discussions , several variants of constructivism have been developed. In th...

This article provides an overview of the history Constructivism and its essential theory practice in Soviet Russia 1920s early 1930s, focusing particularly on various areas design activity, including architecture furniture, graphic photography, sculpture textiles. Consequently, it analyses detail several designs that embody most clearly Constructivist approach. Some these were produced by origi...

This article addresses the issue of "objectivism vs constructivism" in two areas, biology and cognitive science, which are intermediate between the natural sciences such as physics (where objectivism is dominant) and the human and social sciences (where constructivism is widespread). The issues in biology and in cognitive science are intimately related; in each of these twin areas, the "objecti...