Social constructivism

through different strategies. Some students may need reinforcements to stay focused or to perform acceptable behaviors. Other students may not need reinforcements but require social interactions instead. These students need the opportunities that social interactions provide them to learn acceptable behaviors and skills. Then, there are still more students who may need to experience both reinforcements and social interactions to learn. Therefore, I am a supporter of Behaviorism, Social Learning Theory, and Social Constructivism, respectively. I believe teaching students is only effective when teachers…

Jean Piaget is one of the most commonly associated theorists for cognitive constructivism and believes that learning is experiential (Handsfield, 2016, p. 39). Moreover, cognitivist constructivists believe that people accommodate and assimilate knowledge into their mental structures through experience and internalization of new knowledge. Lev Vygotsky is one of the commonly associated theorists of social constructivism and believes that social contexts impact learning through a process of…

Constructivism and Social Constructivism in the Classroom (From: http://marjorieumg.weebly.com/learning-theories.html) For this work, I would like to focus on “Constructivism and Social Constructivism in the classroom” in the scope of this course. In the following sections, I will explain the meaning and the basics of constructivism theory, the origin of it and the starting point of the theory. In addition, importance of constructivism theory will be discussed. Furthermore, the supporters…

different perceptions of nature according to their identities. To this extent, this paper will address the question of whether it exists a nature ‘out there’ as maintained by Positivism or if it is only a social construction as claimed by Social Constructivism. It will be argued that the radicalism (and sometimes even blindness) of those perspectives is reflected also in their political approaches, as highlighted by the case study of the Australian…

Social Constructivism is a theory that belongs to several different research categories, like sociology and psychology, and its true definition can sometimes become lost in translation depending on which research is being done. It is through an article by Shaughan A. Keaton & Graham D. Bodie that explains through their experiment involving a group exercise what in detail what social constructivism within the communication field is and if can even be relatable to communication. Social…

This weeks readings examined the role of social constructivism in education as a pedagogy and practice rather than simply as an educational philosophy. Beck and Kosnik’s (2007) article focuses on the role of social constructivism in preservice education and provide examples of this pedagogy put into practie. Both Elkind (2004) and Carson (2005) discuss preservice education as well as the implications of educators using a constructivist approach to teaching and learning. Elkin’s (2004) article…

Then, children slowly is assuming that people live in a social context. This means that he/she will be "decentering" of that position, and he/she will feel part of a whole. This doesn 't mean that the social no influence in these early stages. Children are related especially to their family dynamics, and cultural values. Lev Vygotsky is considered the precursor of social constructivism, and the several social conceptions of learning. The core of Lev Vygotsky approach is to consider the…

which are: individual constructivism, which states that knowledge is constructed from personal experience by the individual, and social constructivism, which declares that knowledge, is acquired through collaboration with meaning negotiated from multiple perspectives (Almala, 2006) Piaget is known as the first constructivist, asserts that the theory of constructivism emphasis on the process of finding a theory or knowledge that is built from the ground realities. The role of teachers in…

is now obsolete, as children can find all the information they desire, and more, online. Therefore, the role of the teacher must be redefined. Today, a teacher’s main role is to facilitate learning by using a variety of pedagogical methods, in order to engage the students in their own learning. Teachers are able to accomplish this by moving away from the traditional behaviourist methods of mathematical teaching, where children were viewed as little more than empty vessels that required filling…

We are in control of how we look and how we can people to perceive us; or are we? As children, we were told that we were in control of how people see us and we make the image that we want people to see; This isn’t always the case for some of us. It is said that the judgements you make about yourself are solely based on you. In today’s generation, this is not the case; social construction and how people see you physically is what your own judgements are based because sadly we care more about how…