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Created: August 8, 2003
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Constitutive Theory and Education

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One of the ways we learn to care about others is by listening to them when they are unhappy with something we have done. We call this constructivism, learning through our experiences. For this to happen, we have to have some experiences, which means we can't sit around and read textbooks and do homework all day.

"How do definitions of what it means to "construct knowledge" inform our actions as educators?"

This question comes from Elizabeth Murphy on Constructivist Theory. Consider the importance of allowing one to think about his/her experience and draw his/her own conclusions. In order not to run into the problems inherent in autodidactism (teaching oneself without the interdependence of sharing that learning with a formal teacher) we need to explore our separate conclusions together: answerability