Constructivism and education: education as an interpretative transformational process |
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Authors: | Ari Sutinen |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Educational Sciences and Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, The University of Oulu, Snellmania, Linannmaa, P.O. Box 2000, Oulu, 90014, Finland |
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Abstract: | This paper provides an analysis of the ideas of John Dewey and George Herbert Mead with regards the relationship between experience, meaning, language and thinking. It discusses how experience, meaning, language and thinking are based on the creative and constructive actions of individuals. Unlike what is the case in so-called radical constructivism, it is argued that the actions of the individual should be understood in a transactional way. The paper shows the implication of a transactional constructivism for education, arguing that education is the medium in which the creative and constructive actions of individuals come together in a social environment. |
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Keywords: | Constructivism Pragmatism Theory of education John Dewey George H. Mead |
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