The use of social technologies in language learning is becoming more widespread. Although theoretical and methodological frameworks exist for the use of these technologies for language learning, their applicability is still unclear. To fill this void, the current thesis sets off to explore the theoretical framework of Papert’s constructionism as a pervasive theoretical paradigm on which the use...

The world view of students was investigated by measuring covert causal assumptions about the relationship between the person and physical and social reality. The Attitudes About Reality Scale was designed to measure a philosophical dimension ranging between a belief in social constructionism and a belief in logical positivism. These personal epistemologies are related to demographic markers suc...

Video games designed for educational purposes often struggle to effectively connect concepts of interest to gameplay. We propose that to encourage players to mobilize knowledge resources for non-game settings such games must be representationally congruent. Representationally congruent games are construction games where the player builds and/or interacts with the game using primitives relevant ...

In previous writings, I have set forth a rationale for the foundational knowledge value in psychology and psychotherapy of (a) the individual, systematic case study, and (b) inductive generalizations derived from databases of large numbers of such case studies. This rationale is build upon the epistemology and ontology of contemporary philosophical pragmatism and social constructionism as appli...

This article explores the limits of social constructionism and criticizes the ‘demiurgic conception of society’ associated with it. It contemplates the possibility of sociological realism by investigating the intrinsic and objective properties of action, cognition and morality. The incorporation of intrinsic meanings and intentions in social actions, the objective information supporting cogniti...

Abstract The phrase ‘social constructionism about race’ is so ambiguous that it unable to convey anything very meaningful. I argue the various versions of social race are either false, overly broad, or better described as anti-realism biological race. One central rhetorical purposes has been serve an alternative racial realism. However, most compatible with realism, and there some scholars who ...

feminist critical discourse analysis is an approach distinguished by its focus on revealing unequal power relations between women and men in their social life. in the present paper, it is suggested that simone de beauvoir’s theory of the formation of gender identity and female subject in the second sex provides a meaningful theoretical ground to the feminist critical discourse analysis. althoug...

Within the framework of social constructionism, psychotherapy has been re-conceptualized as a semiotic process, which consists of the creative generation of new meanings in the context of collaborative discourse. In recent years, research approaches that draw from social constructionism, such as discourse analysis, have been fruitfully employed in the study of psychotherapy processes, whilst be...