Ch 10 Constructivism

Question 1

constructivism

Answer 1

emphasizes active role of learning in building understanding and making sense of info

Question 2

first wave constructivism

Answer 2

individualistic (Piaget)

Question 3

radical constructivism

Answer 3

knowledge is assumed to be the individual’s construction (cannot be judged right or wrong)

Question 4

second wave constructivism

Answer 4

social and cultural sources of knowing (Vygotsky)

Question 5

assumptions

Answer 5

• multiple perspectives on how individuals view the world
• constructs perspectives by building mental models
• new mental models are easily built when they are linked to existing models
• actively construct meaning for themselves

Question 6

trivial constructivism

Answer 6

knowledge = reconstruction of structures that really exist in the external in world

Question 7

objectivism

Answer 7

knowledge/truth exist outside the mind of the individual

Question 8

social constructionism

Answer 8

ways we create concepts, negotiate social reality, and how they become part of social reality

Question 9

situated learning

Answer 9

idea that skills and knowledge are tied to the situation in which they were learned and that they are difficult to apply in new settings

Question 10

communities of practice

Answer 10

social situation in which ideas are judged useful or true

Question 11

legitimate peripheral participation

Answer 11

gradual process of development in which learners progress toward increasing competence

Question 12

social negotiation

Answer 12

aspect of learning process relies on collaboration

Question 13

intersubjective attitude

Answer 13

build shared meaning w/others (finding common ground, exchanging interpretations)

Question 14

multiple representations of content

Answer 14

considering problems using various analogies, examples, metaphors

Question 15

spiral curriculum

Answer 15

Bruners design for teaching

• fundamentals in lower grades
• revisits in more complex forms over time