Constructivism

Constructivism started out as a critical theory in response to Realism and Liberalism. Realists believe the pursuit of power and relative gains are the motivating factors of states’ actions, while liberalists believe that the pressure of the international system is what pushes states into action. Constructivists say that both of these factors are socially constructed, and therefore not everything is as black and white as it is presented in Realism and Liberalism. The constructivist critique of…

Constructivism, however, takes into account the influence of material power and “the power of knowledge, ideas, culture ideology, and language, that is discourse” (as cited in Hopf, 1998). This distinction is made clear by different theories’ approach to anarchy…

International Relations and they are realism, liberalism, and constructivism. Liberalism is the paradigm that in short, holds the belief that emphasizes the importance of the international institutions that would serve to check relations with other international state actors. Realism stems from the notion that in this anarchic international stage, each state is out to better itself and the only way to survive is to gain more power. Constructivism is a term that has risen to prominence recently.…

Are Mathematics and Christianity related at all? For some, mathematics is simply rules, laws, and axioms that are used to make sense of problems. For others mathematics is the language God used to create universe in its entirety. Either way, certain questions continue to puzzle mathematicians such as: are mathematics invented by human minds to unlock the many mysteries of the world, or are these mathematical truths embedded in God’s nature and henceforth used in the creation of the world?…

Constructivism, written by Russian artist and designer, Aleksei Gan, and The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism 1909 written by Italian poet, Filippo Marinetti, both have written an extensive manifesto of their movements. Aleksei Gan believed that since most people are joined through labor, technologies’ of individual branches of production would form a united social technology, accurately and concretely. Constructivism took artists and architects, and turned them into Constructors. This caused…

The paradigms themselves are like fossils and the scholars who write within these paradigms are like dinosaurs. Fossils cannot be formed until long after the dinosaur has passed. The same is true of the paradigms, men like Waltz may be considered the father of structural realism, but it was not until after he was done writing that people could classify his theory. Furthermore, it will not be for a long time until the international relations scholars will be able to look back and see the effects…

Constructivism is the idea that children develop their knowledge and skills by building on what they already know; essentially, it is child-centred development. Children use their existing knowledge and understanding to learn new things by using what they already know to infer new knowledge from new experiences when interacting with the world around them. Vygotsky theorised that children were influenced by thought, play, imagination and language and that they used these to build their knowledge…

Soc: I think we can both agree that racial justice is a huge issue and we must work to resolve it. Eli: Agreed. People should just understand that there simply is no such thing as race. People tend to justify its existence as being a natural or social kind but, as an eliminativist, I see it as neither. I believe that if we want to achieve social justice we must acknowledge that as fact. Soc: But how can that be? As a social constructivist, I firmly believe that race is a social kind. Although I…

Swiss psychologist, Jean Piaget, is generally attributed with the formalization of the theory of constructivism. Piaget articulated how individuals construct new knowledge based on their experiences. The theory evolved from the extensive study of cognitive development by Piaget and the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky. Constructivists believe that children learn through an active participation in experiences. Piaget believed that a mental process had to happen with new information. "… all…

1.3 Constructivism Constructivism is a theory which is based on observation that emphasize learning is an active and through constructive process. It says that people construct their own understanding and knowledge of the world, through experiencing things and reflecting on those experiences (Bereiter, 1994). The teacher should encourage students to use active techniques (experiments, real-world problem solving) to create more knowledge and then to reflect on and talk about what they are doing…