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Constructivist instruction success or failure?
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Constructivist Instruction: Success or Failure? brings together leading thinkers from both sides of the hotly debated controversy about constructivist approaches to instruction. Although constructi...
Constructivist Instruction: Success or Failure? brings together leading thinkers from both sides of the hotly debated controversy about constructivist approaches to instruction. Although constructivist theories and practice now dominate the fields of the learning sciences, instructional technology, curriculum and teaching, and educational psychology, they have also been the subject of sharp criticism regarding sparse research support and adverse research findings. This volume presents:the evidence for and against constructivism;the challenges from
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- Creator
- edited by Sigmund Tobias, Thomas M. Duffy
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Routledge, 2009
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (389 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0415994233, 1282065351, 0203878841, 0415994241, 9780415994248, 9780203878842, 9780415994231, 1135847932, 9786612065354
- OCLC
- ocn326877598, ocn304386210
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part I Introduction; 1 The Success or Failure of Constructivist Instruction: An Introduction; Part II The Evidence for Constructivism; 2 Reconciling a Human Cognitive Architecture; 3 Constructivism in an Age of Non-Constructivist Assessments; 4 Taking Guided Learning Theory to School: Reconciling the Cognitive, Motivational, and Social Contexts of Instruction; 5 Beyond More Versus Less: A Reframing of the Debate on Instructional Guidance; 6 Constructivism: When It's the Wrong Idea and When It's the Only Idea
- Part III Challenges to the Constructivist View7 What Human Cognitive Architecture Tells Us About Constructivism; 8 Epistemology or Pedagogy, That Is the Question; 9 How Much and What Type of Guidance is Optimal for Learning from Instruction?; 10 Constructivism as a Theory of Learning Versus Constructivism as a Prescription for Instruction; 11 The Empirical Support for Direct Instruction; Part IV An Examination of Specific Learning and Motivational Issues; 12 Learning and Constructivism; 13 From Behaviorism to Constructivism: A Philosophical Journey from Drill and Practice to Situated Learning
- 14 What's Worth Knowing in Mathematics?15 "To Every Thing There is a Season, and a Time to Every Purpose Under the Heavens": What about Direct Instruction?; 16 Beyond the Fringe: Building and Evaluating Scientific Knowledge Systems; Part V Summing Up; 17 An Eclectic Appraisal of the Success or Failure of Constructivist Instruction; 18 Building Lines of Communication and a Research Agenda; Index