This paper describes the perception of a social constructivist approach to teaching and learning among Vietnamese teachers in a Confucian heritage culture and the changes these teachers undergo through their interaction with a new science curriculum that was designed culturally appropriate. A framework of teacher professional development combining state-of-the-art knowledge on professional deve...

Online environments are regarded as well constructed to support collaborative and social learning. This research investigates small group collaboration and learning in the context of online exams. Incorporating constructivism and collaborative learning theories, the online Collaborative Exam features students’ active participation in various phases of the exam process through small group activi...

According to R. A. Neimeyer (2000) and Botella and Herrero (2000), an integrative bridge between cognitive constructivist and social constructionist approaches to therapy might be usefully labeled relational constructivism. This article affirms that Adlerian therapy— both explicitly and implicitly—is a relational constructivist approach, and consequently may serve as an integrative bridge betwe...

Learning theory which best promotes connected learning is I believe, enactivism. The emerging theory of enactivism, which Begg (2002) describes as a development from constructivism, provides a sound basis for teaching and learning, incorporating the concept of ‘power with’ (student and teacher working together in community) and obviating the dualistic approach (an approach that enshrines ‘right...

The implementation of supplier portals is one of the tactics adopted by car manufacturers (OEM) to integrate with their suppliers. The portals have a significant impact on the supplier community which is largely formed of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper applies the social shaping of technology (SST) perspective to analyse the implementation of standardised portal technolog...

The constructivist psychologies theorize about and investigate how human beings create systems for meaningfully understanding their worlds and experiences. I refer to these “constructivisms” using the plural because there are many varieties of constructivism (Neimeyer & Raskin, 2001) and they have been described in various constellations (Botella, 1995; Chiari & Nuzzo, 1996a, 1996b; Lyddon, 199...

The value of individual employability can be enhanced through the provision quality aspects Education. Therefore, development constructivism learning models is one main drivers to attributes students' high-level thinking skills. focus this study and present ideas improve skills building elements model in accounting It concluded that Constructivism Learning Model as Attributors High-Level Thinki...

Aim of this paper is to search and find ways and methods of constructivism teaching and learning ideas inteaching the architectural design studio. The objective is to extract all the positive things constructivism has to offer the architectural design studio for efficient teaching and effective learning. Although there are similarities in the curricula of training architects all over the world,...

This paper attempts to discuss how qualitative (intensive) and quantitative (extensive) research strategies differ by contrasting epistemological and ontological aspects and how these beliefs and views fit with their different intellectual goals. Firstly, this paper discusses the importance of understanding philosophy in social science research and its relation to qualitative (intensive) and qu...

In this journal, Loyens and Gijbels (2008) recently edited an interesting and inspiring special issue on the effects of constructivist learning environments. In this commentary, I do not want to evaluate the specific strengths and shortcomings of the single contributions or of the special issue as a whole. Rikers et al. (2008) have already provided such a balanced evaluation of the special issu...