Constructivism

Constructivism may refer to:

Art and architecture

• Constructivism (art), an early 20th-century artistic movement that extols art as a practice for social purposes
• Constructivist architecture, an architectural movement in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s
• British Constructivists, a group of British artists who were active between 1951 and 1955.

Education

• Constructivism (philosophy of education), a theory about the nature of learning that focuses on how humans make meaning from their experiences
• Constructivism in science education
• Constructivist teaching methods, based on constructivist learning theory

Mathematics

• Constructivism (philosophy of mathematics), a logic for founding mathematics that accepts only objects that can be effectively constructed
• Constructivist set theory
• Constructivist type theory

Philosophy

• Constructivism (philosophy of mathematics), a philosophical view that asserts the necessity of constructing a mathematical object to prove that it exists
• Constructivism (philosophy of education), a theory that suggests that learners do not passively acquire knowledge through direct instruction; instead, they construct their understanding through experiences and social interaction, integrating new information with their existing knowledge
• Constructivism (philosophy of science), a philosophical view maintaining that science consists of mental constructs created as the result of measuring the natural world
• Moral constructivism or ethical constructivism, the view that moral facts are constructed rather than discovered

Political and social sciences

• Constructivism (international relations), a theory that stresses the socially constructed character of international relations
• Constructivism (ethnic politics), a theory that ethnic identities are not unchanging entities and that political developments can shape which identities get activated
• Constructivist institutionalism
• Social constructivism, the view that human development is socially situated and knowledge is constructed through interaction with others

Psychology

• Constructivism (psychological school), a psychological approach that assumes that human knowledge is active and constructive

See also

• Constructionism (disambiguation)
• Constructive theology
• Constructive empiricism
• Deconstructivism, a movement of postmodern architecture from the 1980s
• Neuroconstructivism
• Transactionalism