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Constructivist Theory applied to Instruction: the continuing debate.
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Constructivist Theory applied to Instruction: the continuing debate.
Alexander Romiszowski
(Educational Technology 48/1, January-February 2008, pp62-63)
Why bring this topic up again?
I am currently back in Brazil, after a nine month long stay in Africa, where I was working on several projects related to distance education and the use of ICT for Development (ICT4D). Shortly before going to Africa, I was engaged on program planning and implementation for the twenty second ICDE World Conference on Distance Education. During the last month or two, since my return from Africa, I was similarly engaged, assisting the program planning committee of the Brazilian Association for Educational Technology (ABT – Associação Brasileira de Tecnologia Educacional) to organize the program of its annual conference. As I write this column, the ABT conference has just finished. Some aspects of discussions at this conference have stimulated me to focus this month’s column on a topic which we have already addressed in a previous column – the apparent misalignment between theory and practice as regards constructivism and instruction, and the forces that are really shaping instructional change.