Post-contemporary composition: Social constructivism and its alternatives

Composition Studies;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......preferred pedagogy to some form of social constructivism. Despite articles like Thomas Kent...Dasenbrock's "Truth and Methods," social constructivism remains hegemonic. Yet, there is...persuasive cases have been made for social constructivism as it is that advocates have engaged...

social constructivism

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology;      44 words ...social constructivism [Th]. The proposition that all knowledge, including so-called ‘scientific knowledge’ is not a neutral body of data independent of cultural norms and values, but is actually socially constructed in support of particular values and understandings.

Sociorelational Psychoanalysis and Agency: Reply to Commentary

Psychoanalytic Dialogues;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......matters, or if she understands that social constructivism does not necessarily contradict...lumping together all versions of social constructivism into a classic straw man, characterizing...Perhaps there are such versions of social constructivism, but it is not the one I presented...

On the making of hard times and good times: the social construction of...

Journal of Higher Education;  January 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......beyond themselves. Alternatively, social constructivism views this world as a human creation...turn from contingency theory to social constructivism as a vantage point for examining...address these questions, rooted in social constructivism, I examined people's beliefs and...

Family Scripts

American Journal of Psychotherapy;  April 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......an edited work based upon both social constructivism and script theories. The editor...somewhat arbitrary. The editor defines social constructivism succintly as "definitions of reality...theory, and integrates them into the social constructivism and family-scripts framework. She...

Barbara Herrnstein Smith. Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the...

symploke;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......anti-foundational skepticism and social constructivism. As others have queried, however...radical skepticism can support. Social constructivism, for instance, is supposed to exemplify...to the problem of knowledge. But social constructivism is supposed to explain conceptions...

Play therapy and social constructivism: seeing the world through a young...

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Constructivist Theory To apply social constructivism to counseling young people, I will...create their own reality. Further, social constructivism focuses on language as the framework...longer serving an adaptive function. Social constructivism is an appropriate theoretical ...

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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  September 9, 1999 ;     640 words ......the publication of a work such as this one indicates, social constructivism has over the past twenty years or so become a potent...In an introductory chapter he sketches the origins of social constructivism as applied to the sciences and some of the debates within...

Innovations in Teacher Education: A Social Constructivist Approach

Canadian Journal of Education;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......constructivist package. The authors outline social constructivism in Chapter 1 as an approach to...inclusive and equitable" (p. 14). Social constructivism, in this view, calls for the creation...of knowledge and understanding. Social constructivism in teacher education, then, calls...

Constructivism in the classroom: Epistemology, history, and empirical...

Teacher Education Quarterly;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......post-modernist thought (i.e., radical constructivism, social constructivism, deconstractivsm, post-structuralism, and the like) on...constructivism is a subset (e.g., radical constructivism, social constructivism, and deconstructivism). With regard to educational practice...

Unethical writers love the power of creative non-fiction.

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  January 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Patrick T. Reardon Jan. 13--Creative non-fiction is an odd literary animal in which a writer uses a novelist's techniques to bring vivid life to a story that's true and accurate. At least, it's supposed...

The social construction of conflict and reconciliation in the former...

Social Justice;  December 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......1998) claim a convergence between quantum physics and social constructivism. These are exciting times to be thinking about international...the state, power, and interests. Post-structuralism and social constructivism share credit for redirecting our inquiry to questions...

Metaphorical ideas as mediating artifacts for the social construction of...

International Journal of Instructional Media;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......discover some insights into the Deweyan notion of idea-based social constructivism (Prawat, 1996, 1999). Broadly speaking, ideas can be...negotiation process is probably of unequivocal importance in social constructivism (Prawat, 1996). Through negotiation, students are usually...

International regimes and the legitimacy of rules: a discourse-ethical...

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......interested in the problem of normativity have turned to social constructivism in an effort to place their project on more solid foundations...each of these three conceptions. I then briefly explore social constructivism in international relations, and more particularly a social-constructivi...

Compulsory participation in online discussions: is this constructivism or...

Innovations in Education and Teaching International;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......participation in online discourse is popularly recognised as social constructivism, the problematisation and critique of online practices...extreme versions being 'radical individual' and 'radical social' constructivism (Phillips, 2000). The other interpretations take varying...