This text offers a multidisciplinary perspective on key issues of alternative epistemologies in education, and includes contributions from scholars in family therapy, epistemology, and mathematics, science and language education. The researchers were brought together to develop the theme of constructivism as it applied to many diversified fields. This book examines key distinctions of various contructivist epistemologies, comparing and contrasting the various paradigms. Each section provides both keynote positions on a particular alternative paradigm as well as critical comments by...