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Concepts of Realism in Constructivist Approaches

open access: yesSociologica, 2023
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: A New Paradigm in Teaching and Learning Environment

open access: yesPERENNIAL JOURNAL OF HISTORY, 2021
This study aimed to examine social constructivism as a learning theory and its implications for teaching methods, student motivation, and the whole teaching/learning process.
Amna Saleem, Huma Kausar, Farah Deeba
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Breaking barriers in higher education: Implementation of cost-effective social constructivism in engineering education

open access: yesInternational Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education, 2023
Social constructivism is considered the main driver of curriculum overhaul for the new set of learning in the digital age. Implementation of cost-effective solutions of social constructivism in higher education is a challenge.
Azfar Khalid   +3 more
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Enhancement of EFL learners’ lexical retention: The role of social constructivism

open access: yesCogent Education, 2023
Vocabulary plays a significant role in the learning process of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students, especially undergraduates who need to read academic materials and listen to specialized lectures in English.
Nguyễn Quốc, L. Van
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Teachers as Reflective Practitioners: From Individualism to Vygotskian Social Constructivism

open access: yesAlberta Journal of Educational Research, 2022
The paper presents a critical review of major works on reflective practice in teaching that mainly define reflection as a technical and isolated process, taking place in an individual’s mind.
M. Shah
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The Potency of Social Constructivism on Classroom Productivity in Universities

open access: yesStudies in Learning and Teaching, 2022
Various indications, including literature, have confirmed that university classrooms are still mostly inactive and undemocratic, dominated by instructors and lecturers.
B. Omodan, Bunmi, Isaiah Omodan
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Social constructivism in the field of education and learning [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja, 2011
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

open access: yesPhilosophy of Medicine, 2021
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

open access: yesNordicum-Mediterraneum, 2021
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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Social Constructivism Theory in a Sociolinguistic Classroom

open access: yesInternational journal of social science and human research, 2021
This paper aims to examine the efficacious of using social constructivism in teaching sociolinguistics. The students of a bachelor’s degree in a department of English language and linguistics used to suffer in doing sociolinguistic projects and some of ...
Najla͏ Alghamdi
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