Constructivism in education

This volume gathers the thinking of researchers from family therapy, epistemology, and the teaching of mathematics, science, and language. Its aim is to show how constructivism plays out across these different areas, and to trace its implications for how learning is understood. Readers will find a comparison of several constructivist epistemologies, set side by side to show where they differ and where they overlap.

Each section centers on a keynote essay that lays out one alternative paradigm, followed by responses from other scholars that test and question that position. Several chapters go further by pulling the competing epistemological viewpoints together into a synthesis.