The Internet Web Site on Virtual Clinical Applications and Disease Management is a hypermedia, case-based open learning environment that was designed to promote cognitive flexibility in college students at The University of Georgia College of Pharmacy. With a key objective of pharmacy education being patient problem-solving skills, this environment exposes students to a variety of resources on ...

Instructionism refers to educational practices that are teacher-focused, skill-based, productoriented, non-interactive, and highly prescribed. Constructivism refers to educational practices that are student-focused, meaning-based, process-oriented, interactive, and responsive to student interest. There is disagreement regarding which curricular orientation best serves the educational needs of c...

It is so common that it may be considered almost universal among second order cyberneticians, to identify second order cybernetics and radical constructivism, distinguished as opposite sides of the same coin. It is perhaps not so common that radical constructivists make this equation: they seem much more interested in the influence of radical constructivism in other subjects, especially educati...

3. Four selected types of discursive formations 3.1 The discourse of the master 3.2 The discourse of knowledge 3.3 The discourse of lived relationships 3.4 The discourse of the unconscious 4. Some ethical bearings of the interactive-constructivist theory of discourse References 1 Interactive constructivism is a socially and culturally orientated form of constructivism, articulated within the ph...

Current education literature is dominated by discussions of constructivism. This new name for a set of old ideas has major implications for how museums address learning. Constructivism is particularly appropriate as a basis for museum education if we consider the wide age range of museum visitors. How can we accommodate this diverse audience and facilitate their learning from our objects on the...

Following a brief discussion of the meanings of constructivism an argument is made to the effect that Q methodology is a constructivist methodology in a sense that is compatible with the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. A brief comparison of the ideas of Stephenson and Whitehead is followed by a section outlining Whitehead’s notion of the ‘event’ or ‘actual occasion’ as the core of a radic...