Contemporary teaching models are more student-centred and are based on the constructivist learning theory. This article discusses how to adopt a constructivistteaching model in computer science disciplines. The problem based learning (PBL) practice and teaching experience in China is first discussed. Based on the constructivist learning theory and nature of computer science, the author discusse...

an the use of teacher led “why” questioning techniques improve student learning of texts in K-12 educational settings? Much of the educational reform movement seeks to deemphasize the centrality of the teacher in leading classroom discussions in favor of more ‘student-centered’ approaches (Bransford, Brown & Cocking, 1999, Hirsch 1996), but research in this line seems both appropriate and neces...

Following a brief discussion of the meanings of constructivism an argument is made to the effect that Q methodology is a constructivist methodology in a sense that is compatible with the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. A brief comparison of the ideas of Stephenson and Whitehead is followed by a section outlining Whitehead’s notion of the ‘event’ or ‘actual occasion’ as the core of a radic...

In the following, I will outline some implications of the Cologne program of “interactive constructivism” (founded by Kersten Reich) 1 for educational theory. I will proceed in three steps. In an introductory section, I will first briefly locate the Cologne program within the context of the so called „cultural turn“ in recent constructivist discourses. Secondly, I will introduce some main theor...

Neural constructivists have proclaimed, on the basis of arguments which it is suggested in the following are unconvincing, a view of the nervous system which has little place for innate knowledge relating to speciic domains. In this paper an alternative position is developed, which by instantiating innate knowledge in a exible manner provides a more credible alternative. It invokes dynamical sy...

> Context • Radical constructivism claims that we have no final truth criteria for establishing one ontology over another. This leaves us with the question of how we can come to know anything in a viable manner. According to von Glasersfeld, radical constructivism is a theory of knowledge rather than a philosophy of the world in itself because we do not have access to a human-independent world....

June/July 2002 • American Psychologist vites the replacement of one with the other. PDP connectionism provides a synthetic perspective on the dialectical tension created by this play of apparent opposites by centering inquiry on constructivist network principles that govern the emergence of mind from brain. Connectionism brings postmodernist constructive assumptions to bear regarding how percep...

constructivism, as a method of discussion in international politics and foreign policy, is considered a young method which is based on philosophical subjects in social sciences. first the article presents the philosophical approach of constructivism through a logical course and shows its difference with competitive approaches; then enters the constructivism of international relations and discus...