This work proposes an agent learning architecture based on the constructivist approach. First we show how Artificial Intelligence can incorporate some concepts from Jean Piaget's psychology to form Constructivist AI as an alternative branch of AI. Details about the proposed architecture are presented, and a discussion about autonomy is made. We focus mainly on the learning method, and the kind ...

This report presents the findings of a case study of a novel professional development practice model for academic university staff developed by the Learning in Higher Education (LiHE) association. It describes the implementation of a social constructivist approach to professional development, characterised by various, structured collaborative activities, and possible levels of participation. Th...

Research in the field of ethnic politics is especially important in the context of Latin America, a region that continues to struggle with the incorporation and increasing participation of ethnic minorities, particularly Indigenous peoples, in the regional and national political arenas. Unfortunately, the correct approach to ethnicity research remains an unresolved contention between the Primor...

The article argues that it is necessary to move e-learning beyond learning management systems and engage students in an active use of the web as a resource for their selfgoverned, problem-based and collaborative activities. The purpose of the article is to discuss the potential of social software to move e-learning beyond learning management systems. An approach to use of social software in sup...

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...


 Some features of the communicative approach, such as use authentic learning materials, emphasis on significance (meaning) rather than form (form) language, and interaction in process students are still relevant to purpose mastering Arabic overall a tool communicate. However, world teaching general has developed several alternative approaches, which one them is constructivist cognitive ap...

This paper presents CALM (Constructivist Anticipatory Learning Mechanism), an agent learning mechanism based on a constructivist approach. It is designed to deal dynamically and interactively with environments which are at the same time partially deterministic and partially observable. We describe in detail the mechanism, explaining how it represents knowledge, and how the learning methods oper...