CONSTRUCTIVISM AND ITS IMPACT ON DEVELOPING STUDENT–CENTERED STRATEGIES

Abstract

The more and more repeated requirements from the educational environment and, more than that, from the labour market, determine teachers to search for and to implement (in the formative praxis) solutions which are meant to generate a qualitative improvement of results. Rediscovering and giving new signs to the value of the human potential of the subject of learning, pedagogical theory has developed more and more systematically a set of conceptual and methodological approaches which are focused on this. Their importance and impact rise so significantly, that they tend to form a real pedagogical paradigm.The purpose of the present paper is to show the manner in which it takes shape (through reporting to the complementary paradigm) and to discuss its defining dimensions.

Key words: constructivism, constructivist didactics, student-centred learning, student orientation

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