RADICAL CONSTRUCTIVISM

ISBN-13: 9780750703871 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 232 str.

Opis

Introduces radical constructivism, a theory of knowing that provides an approach to reality, truth, language and human understanding. This text examines the constructivist strand in the history of philosophy and outlines how the author's various thoughts developed into radical constructivism.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Growing up Constructivist; Chapter 2 Unpopular Philosophical Ideas; Chapter 3 Piaget’s Constructivist Theory of Knowing; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6 Constructing Agents; Chapter 7 On Language, Meaning, and Communication; Chapter 8 The Cybernetic Connection; Chapter 9; Chapter 10 To Encourage Students’ Conceptual Constructing;

O autorze

Ernst von Glasersfeld is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia, Research Associate at the Scientific Reasoning Research Institute and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a Member of the Board of Trustees, American Society for Cybernetics, from whom he received the McCulloch Memorial Award in 1991; a Member of the Scientific Board, lnstituto Piaget, Lisbon; and Editorial Consultant to a number of international journals.