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CONSTRUCTIVIST
THEORIES |
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Constructivism has emerged
over the past few decades as a major instructional movement
emphasizing the active role of learners engaged in meaningful,
authentic and collaborative tasks. Unlike traditional
objectivist instructional models, which treated knowledge
as a trans-ferable commodity, constructivist models
view instruction as a learner-centered process where
stud-ents assume major responsibility for con-structing
new knowledge through carefully guided experiences linked
to real-world situations.
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| Constructivist Theories |
Objectives |
| Discovery
Learning |
1. Define
and state common principles of constructivist learning
environments. 2. Discuss Dewey's notion
of learning by doing as a foundation for constructivism.
3. Discuss the major contributions
of Jerome Bruner to Discovery Learning theory. 4.
Define Bruner's spiral curriculum and relate it to Jonassen's
generative learning. 5. Discuss the
roll of inductive reasoning in discovery learning. 6.
Differentiate discovery learning from previous cognitive
learning principles. |
| Situated
Learning |
1. Explain
Deweyan pragmatism as a foundation for situated learning
theory. 2. Define and state the significance
of situated learning. 3. Define anchored
instruction and cite a famous example. 4.
Distinguish problem-based learning from anchored instruction.
5. Identify the major principles of
functional context theory and differentiate it from
situativity theory. 6. Discuss cognitive
apprenticeship as a model derived from situated learning
theory. |
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