~SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM~

TOPIC 7

• Definition

- Emphasizes the important of culture and context in understanding what occurs in society

- Theories of: Vygotsky, Bruner, Albert Bandura

- Reality is constructed through human activirty

- Knowledge is a human product, socially & culturally constructed

- Learning as social process

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• General perspectives of Social Contructivism on learning

1) Cognitive tools perspective

- focuses on learning of cognitive skills & strategies

2) Idea-based social contructivism

- set priority on important concepts in various discipline in science

3) Pragmatic / emergent approach

- assert that implementation of social constructivism in class should be emergent as the need arises

4) Transactional / situated cognitive perspectives

- focuses on the relationship between the people & their environment

• Vygotsky's Constructivism

- Social interaction in development of cognition

- ZPD: provide scaffolding

• Piaget's Constructivism

- Knowledge is actively constructed

- Theory on how a child's thinking evolves over time

- Focus on learning stages