Talk:Constructivism (philosophy of education)

The constructivist teachers are there to aid the children...

"The constructivist teachers are there to aid the children, and provided support to their knowledge acquisition."

I deleted this sentence because it does not communicate sufficiently specific information. However, I would welcome a more precise statement about the goals of constructivist teachers.

Areas of this article that need improvement

The article cites Wertsch (1997) but it does not include this source in the references.

To start with...

• history of constructivist philosphy citing Plato, Locke, Rousseau, Dewey, von Glasersfeld, Bruner, and others.

• clarity about the axioms, or fundamental tenets of constructivism.

• descriptions of the different flavors of constructivist learning theory

• explanation of social constructivism

and also

• the other educational philosophies prevalent at the time that Piaget was attempting to disprove

• the educational movements that used Piaget and Papert's theories to bring about change in education and childcare

• their successes and failures

also and simply

• complete references for the in-text citations ... eg: "Social constructivism views each learner as a unique individual with unique needs and backgrounds. The learner is also seen as complex and multidimensional (Gredler 1997)" .. the Gredler text is not mentioned in the references, certainly not properly according to his name.

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Stubbed in section on critical constructivism using Gemini

I had Gemini prepare the summary text and the three citations. I made the syntax clean. The citations look valid, but I didn't manually check them closely, and as far as I checked in Freire, he uses different language than this summary here; nevertheless, Gemini still insists he's the right primary citation.

• Friere PDF

I will leave proper validation to some future editor more familiar with the literature. — MaxEnt 02:52, 11 December 2024 (UTC)