SY242 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Masculinity, Ethnomethodology, Social Fact
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Constructivism theory based on observation and scientific study about how people learn: people construct their own understandings/knowledge of the world through experiences and reflecting on those experiences. Constructionism theory of instruction: states that building knowledge occurs best through building things that are tangible and sharable, idea that people learn through making things. There are 2 dividing lines of discussion within constructionism: 1. ) Where does the construction take place: 2. ) Emphasis on how the individual consciousness constructs reality: 2. ) Attached to a moderate variant of the first perspective. Highlights the way in which the conscious construction of reality takes place in the context of a systematic relationship with the external world: 3. ) Approach focusing more than the previous one on the influence of social relations upon the conscious construction of reality: 4. ) Viewed as an approach who"s primary emphasis is on discourses as a medium for the construction of the self and society. How these discourses function and affect social relations.
