Individuality and community: The limits of social constructivism. [PDF]
AbstractIs selfhood socially constituted and distributed? Although the view has recently been defended by some cognitive scientists, it has long been popular within anthropology and cultural psychology. Whereas older texts by Marcel Mauss, Clifford Geertz, Hazel Rose Markus, and Shinobu Kitayama often contrast a Western conception of a discrete ...
Zahavi D.
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Investigating the influence of language teachers' constructivist self-efficacy on their practice of constructivism in Ghanaian language and culture instruction. [PDF]
The education system in Ghana is undergoing a transition from a behaviorist instructional philosophy to a constructivist one, aiming to produce learners who can actively contribute to nation-building.
Ernest Nyamekye +2 more
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Presenting a causal model of the effect of social constructivist learning environment and motivational orientations: the mediating role of self-efficacy and outcome expectation [PDF]
The present study was done with the aim of presenting the causal model of the effect environment of social constructivist on motivational orientations with regard to the mediating role of self-efficacy and outcome expectation.
Houshang Geravand, Moslem Ghobadiyan
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Concepts of Realism in Constructivist Approaches
The thesis of this paper is that the debate on realism versus constructivism is misconceived as there exist many different variants of constructivism, each of which operates with a certain, albeit minimalist social ontology. Different concepts of realism
Thomas S. Eberle
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Social constructivism in the field of education and learning [PDF]
Social constructivism is, first and foremost, the theory of knowledge focused on the role of social processes in knowledge creation. Its proponents are interested in interactions among people which are observed as the ways through which shared ...
Milutinović Jovana
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How to Be a Naturalist and a Social Constructivist about Diseases
Debates about the concept of disease have traditionally been framed as a competition between two conflicting approaches: naturalism, on the one hand, and normativism or social constructivism, on the other.
Brandon A. Conley, Shane N. Glackin
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Climate Change, the Arctic and I
This article uses the constructivist political theory to explain individual, state and non-state actors’ relationships with a warming Arctic. At the individual level, constructivism explains why the author studies the Arctic, even though there is no ...
Martin Binachon
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The main questions on this essay is how to integrate Christian faith in social constructivism or how do we relate both and on the practical aspect, could Christian schools use constructivism?
Andi Krisdianto Nugroho
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A world of their making: an evaluation of the constructivist critique in international relations [PDF]
IR constructivism maintain that a proper understanding of the way subjects interact with the world and with each other alerts us to the fallacy of conventional IR theory. And yet, for a theory that is so obviously dependent upon a rigorous working of the
Palan, Ronen
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Prevention and social constructivism [PDF]
Humans of the communism future ought to be healthy, happy and by a high birth rate assure expanding reproduction. So, the idea of prevention was very natural to communist physicians. In 1923, the Moscow health care department led by Vladimir Obukh (physician to Vladimir Lenin's family), initiated health check-ups for workers.
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