Today's nursing programs are struggling to accommodate the changing needs of the health care environment and need to make changes in how students are taught. Using constructivism theory, whereby learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current or past knowledge, leaders in nursing education can make a paradigm shift toward concept-based cu...

Debates about the concept of disease have traditionally been framed as a competition between two conflicting approaches: naturalism, on one hand, and normativism or social constructivism, other. In this article, we lay groundwork for naturalistic form constructivism by (1) dissociating presumed link value-free conceptions broadly approach; (2) offering argument constructivism; (3) suggesting av...

This paper applies evolutionary and functional constructivism approaches to the discussion of psychological taxonomies, as implemented in the neurochemical model Functional Ensemble of Temperament (FET). FET asserts that neurochemical systems developed in evolution to regulate functional-dynamical aspects of construction of actions: orientation, selection (integration), energetic maintenance, a...

A graduate course on cultural diversity, based in constructivist theory and structured on the Process of Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Healthcare Services model, was developed and taught through classroom and online methods. The following research questions were explored: 1) Can an educational experience, built on constructivist learning theory tenets, change students' perceptions, att...

One obvious alternative is to have students construct their own AVs, rather than having them interact with AVs constructed by someone else. While not motivated by learning theory, a few computer science educators have already explored so-called “animation assignments,” in which students are asked to construct their own AV of a given algorithm. For example, Brown (1988, Appendix A) describes ani...