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the process of learners controlling their learning
In other words, constructivism is a pedagogical theory that considers and respects children's minds, experiences, developmental levels and the societal factors that surround them.
1. Teacher Readiness- Teachers need to learn more about child development.
2. Curricular Readiness- Curricullum is not successfully matched to children's abilities and development levels.
3. Societal Readiness- Society considers grades and testing as the best ways to judge education. Understanding and knowledge are not the goals of our schools.
According to Jamin Carson
Constructivist approaches are not 'grounded' in reality.
Carson states
"Constructivist English teachers who tell students that there are no right-or-wrong answers or that their inerpretation is as correct as anyone else's only encourage students to be carless and uncritical readers, writers and thinkers."
In other words, constructivist approaches create too many variables and are not as logical, realistic or testable as an objective approach.
"Children have their own way of knowing and these ways should be valued and respected"
as interpreted from Rousseau's book Emile.
Vygotsky
"Their is a social context to knowlede and acquisition"
Piaget
"The categories of knowing are constructed in the course of child development"