British Constructivist Art

3D Interface Inspired by Constructivist Art Principles

Concepts of form and space from the realm of art have in the past provided inspiration for designers seeking to explore new models for interface design. This paper is a conceptual evaluation that investigates issues encountered when the Constructivist art of Laslar Lissitzky, and his series of “Proun” paintings, are used to inspire and inform design decisions for a web browser history interface...

Radio On and British Art Cinema

What Is Constructivist about Constructivist Education ?

My work over the past 30 years has been to take what seemed to me the best theory of human mental development –Piaget's—and try to draw its educational implications. Those implications have grown into a general educational paradigm that I have called constructivist education. Taking Piaget's epistemological and psychological theory as an example of theory inspiring educators, we can point to ma...

Constructivist Pedagogy

This article constitutes a critique from the inside of constructivist pedagogy. It begins with a short history of constructivist pedagogy and its relationship to constructivist learning theory. It then addresses four issues in the ways in which constructivist pedagogy are being approached in research and practice. The first issue recommends more of a research focus on student learning in classr...

Towards Constructivist Assessment ? 1

This paper considers alternative assessment and cybernetics. For more than 30 years, debates about formative and summative assessment have served as surrogates for discussions about the working of the mind, the social implications of assessment and, as important, the role of instruction in the advancement of learning. Arising from these discussions, alternative assessment currently lives uneasi...