A Millennial Mistake: Three Arguments Against Radical Social Constructivism |
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| Authors: | Alex North |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Counseling DepartmentIdaho State University;2. Now at H&H Treatment ProgramsMeridian, Idaho |
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| Abstract: | Recent scholars have argued that counseling has begun to embrace social constructivism as a paradigm for counseling. However, this commitment to social constructivist tenets may be both premature and undesirable. This article provides a critique of a dominant branch of social constructivism: radical social constructivism. Three arguments are presented establishing that radical social constructivism leads to logically impossible conclusions, violates counseling's moral convictions, and denies secure scholarship in related fields. |
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| Keywords: | radical social constructivism cognitive constructionism philosophy |
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