VYGOTSKY´S PHILOSOPHY BY ADRIANA SALGADO

The constructivism emphasis on learners and active participation and the heightened recognition given to the social nature of learning. The bad side of the constructivism lies in its tendency towards epistemological relativism.

Constructivism and criticisms in contemporary literature

Constructivism emerged as the leading metaphor of human learning as interest waned in behaviorist and information processing perspectives. The fact that constructivism consensually hold that knowledge is not mechanical acquired, but actively constructed within the constraints and offering of the learning environment.

Constructivism is basically a theory based on observation and scientific study about how people learn. It says that the people construct their own understanding and knowledge of the world, through the experiencing things and reflecting on those experiences. Today there are variants of constructivism first the cognitive constructivism and radical constructivism.

The cognitive constructivism is believed to stem largely from piaget’s works  theorists affiliated with this line of thinking focus on the interpersonal prosses of individual knowledge construction cognitive or radical constructivists consequently emphasise learner-centred  and discovery oriented learning processes. Constructivism teachers encourage students to constantly assess how the activity is helping them gain understanding. By questioning   themselves and their strategies, students in the constructivism class ideally become expert learners. The active participation is very important, it is often seen that constructivism to easily dismisses the role of passive perception, memorization and mechanical learning methods in traditional didactic lecturing.