Constructivism: Pragmatic Utopianism

Realism and Utopianism Revisited

Toward A Pragmatic Discourse of Constructivism: Reflections on Lessons from Practice

In the past few decades, a constructivist discourse has emerged as a very powerful model for explaining how knowledge is produced in the world, as well as how students learn.1 For constructivists like Joe Kincheloe (2000) and Barbara ThayerBacon (1999), knowledge about the world does not simply exist out there, waiting to be discovered, but is rather constructed by human beings in their interac...

Coercive Utopianism: Endogenous Models of Cultural Dynamics

Coercive utopianism is one of the more disruptive and destructive processes of the last two centuries. It has not spread in a fixed form, but rather is uniquely generated in each socio-historical context. The focus of the present paper is to identify cultural processes by which coercive utopianism is constituted, and the design and implementation requirements of the computational mechanisms req...

Info-computational Constructivism

Context: At present we lack both a common understanding of the process of cognition in living organisms (with or without a nervous system and brain) and the details of the construction of knowledge in embodied, embedded cognizing agents in general, including future artifactual intelligent agents under development, such as cognitive robots and softbots. The info-computational approach is focused...

Interpreting Legal Constructivism