Volume : IV, Issue : XI, November - 2015

Constructivism: A complete teaching and learning approach

Muyeen Maqbool Mir, Dr. Saroj Jain

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 Constructivism has a potential for enrichment of cognitive, affective and psychomotor outcomes of learners. Constructivists advocate that education cannot be done simply by the spread of knowledge from the teachers to the learners. Relatively, knowledge is constructed by learners through dynamic and intellectual process of development; learners are the builders and creators of meaningful knowledge. It refers to the idea that learners construct knowledge for themselves. In traditional scenario of education, teacher centered approaches were used in which a teacher transmits information to students who passively listen and acquire facts while during constructivist approach, learner centered approaches are used in which students are actively involved in their learning to reach new understandings, so each learner individually and socially develop their skills to construct meaning as they learn. This new experience facilitates learners to modify their previous meaning about the phenomena, i.e. constructivism is a meaning making process and learning takes place through both individual and social activities. So classroom should be based on constructivist approach of teaching and learning. Contextual approach, experiential learning, and inquiry based learning, problem solving approach, field trips, techno–pedagogy, concept mapping, investigatory approach are the student centered approaches, these approaches are helpful in meaningful learning. If teachers use these approaches according to the necessity of content transaction in classroom, then learning is constructed, active, reflective, collaborative and evolving among learners. Constructivist teaching fosters critical thinking and creates active and motivated learning. A constructivist approach frees teachers to make decisions that will boost and improve learner‘s development it means constructivist classroom not only benefits learning of students, but it also helps to increase the various ability among learners, such as: problem–solving ability, scientific attitude, fostering creativity, decision power making ability, reflective ability, higher order thinking ability and many more.

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Muyeen Maqbool Mir, Dr. Saroj Jain / Constructivism: A complete teaching and learning approach / International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 4, Issue : 11 November 2015

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