Constructivism

University of Colorado at Denver
School of Education

Constructivism

Sociocultural Theory	Enactivism	Postmodern Thought	Activity Theory
Theory of Technology	Minimalism	Learning Environments	corollary sites

Definitions:

What is Constructivism? (Nick Sushkin)
What is Constructivism? (Arts in Education, UWNY)
What is Constructivism? (On Purpose Associates)
Construcivist Learning Theory (Arts in Education, UWNY)
Classroom Compass Volume 1, Number 3: Constructivism (Southwest Education Development Lab)
Constructivism Overview (Irene Chen)
Cognitive Constructivism (Irene Chen)
Social Constructivism (Irene Chen)
Cognitive Approach (Judith Conway)

Readings

Fredric Bartlett
Belenky, Clinchy, and Goldberger and Torule Women's Ways of Knowing : The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind
- reviews (amazon.com)
Carl Bereiter Our Oldest Unchallenged Folk Theory (From Education and the Mind in the Knowledge Age) (1999)
Berryman (1991) Designing Effective School-Based Learning Environments: Cognitive Apprenticeship Models
Black and McClintock (1995) An Interpretation Construction Approach to Constructivist Design
Blanchette and Kanuka Constructivist-ISD debate
- Brown, Collins & Duguid (1989) Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning
Jerome Bruner
Buckman and Resnick (1995) The MediaMOO Project: Constructionism and the professional community
Burbules (1997) Aporia: Webs, Passages, Getting Lost, and Learning to Go On
William Clancey
Crotty (1993) Constructivist Theories United States Distance Learning and Teacher Education
John Dewey
Dillenbourg, et.al. (1995) Intelligent Learning Environments
Duffy and Cunningham Constructivism: Implications for the Design and Delivery of Instruction (in Jonassen, 1996: Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology)
Eisner (1999) The Uses and Limits of Performance Assessment
Fischer (1996) Life Long Learning and Design
Hanley (1994) On Constructivism
Hein (1991) Constructivist Learning Theory
Jaworski (1993) Constructivism and Teaching - The socio-cultural context
Klemm (1994) Using a Formal Collaborative Learning Paradigm
David Jonassen
- Jonassen Home Page
- Jonassen profile (Sebastian Foti)
- A conversation with David Jonassen (INTRO interview)
- Technology as Cognitive Tools: Learners as Designers (ITForum)
Lorsbach and Tobin (1997) Constructivism as a Referent for Science Teaching
Matthews (1992) Old Wine in New Bottles: Problems with constructivist epistemology
Humberto Maturana
Maria Montessori
Papert (1984) Constructionism vs. Instructionism
Papert and Harel (1991) Situating Constructionism
Peal Shared Constructive Perspective: The Legacy of Vygotsky
Gordon Pask
Jean Piaget
Carl Rogers
- Rogers profile (George Boeree)
- Rogers profile (Mark Smith)
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1762) Emile, ou l'education
Ryder (1994) Augmentation of the intellect: Network instruments, environments and strategies for learning
Ryder (1995) USENET: a constructivist learning environment
Donald Schön (Mark Smith)
Shaw & Gains (1992) Geometry of Psychological Space
Soefijanto (2000) The Implementation of The Ideas of Plato, Rousseau, and Dewey in American Elementary Education
Strommen and Lincoln (1992) Constructivism, Technology, and the Future of Classroom Learning.
Thompson (2000) Constructivist Curriculum Design for Professional Development: a review of the literature.
Brent Wilson
- Reflections on Constructivism and Instructional Design (1997)
- Metaphors for Instruction: Why We Talk about Learning Environments (1995)
Francisco Verela
Heinz von Foerster
Ernst von Glasersfeld
- Learning as Constructive Activity (1983)
- An Introduction to Radical Constructivism (1981)
- Cognition, Construction of Knowledge, and Teaching (1989)
- Aspects of Radical Constructivism and its Educational Recommendations (1992)
- How Do We Mean? A Constructivist Sketch of Semantics (1992)
- Knowing Without Metaphysics: Aspects of the Radical Constructivist Position (1991)
- Radical Constructivism and Teaching (2000)
Lev Vygotsky:
- Vygotsky in a nutshell (Mike Tyler)
- Tutorial on Lev Vygotsky (Margaret Anderson)
- see Cognitive Science, Socio-Cultural Theory and Activity Theory (Martin Ryder)
- Cole and Wertsch (1996) Beyond the Individual-Social Antimony in Discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky