Abstract This paper highlights the concept of constructivism that underpins theory and practice foreign language teaching. The dominance this pedagogical movement in second half 20th century beginning 21st has been particularly important for study understanding digitally supported forms learning. Constructivism can provide a response to analysis new learning: it is based on premise knowledge tr...

Context: At present we lack both a common understanding of the process of cognition in living organisms (with or without a nervous system and brain) and the details of the construction of knowledge in embodied, embedded cognizing agents in general, including future artifactual intelligent agents under development, such as cognitive robots and softbots. The info-computational approach is focused...

The point of the article is to analyse and reflect on certain symptoms of anorexia nervosa in light of Karl Jaspers and Erich Fromm's ideas and social constructivism. Contemplating the disorder in view of the philosophical ideas mentioned earlier, the author analyses such aspects of patients as: functioning on the verge of life and death, the paradoxical struggle to escape from freedom in searc...

Traditionally, behaviouristic models have been used for the design of many interactive learning environments. In contrast, we propose a pedagogical model based on social constructivism and phenomenography, which we believe is more adequate when, for instance, information seeking and the use of the WWW are natural components in the learning situation. To see learners as persons who continuously ...