International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 1

Constructive Paradigm in Teaching Learning Process

  • Author:
  • Meena Sharma
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 539 to 543

Associate Professor, G.B. College of Education, Rohtak, Haryana, India

Online published on 17 March, 2016.

Abstract

The constructivist approach offers a theoretical basis for developing a learning model in which students are led to active and reflective and which could codetermine their creativity. Constructivism is a theory of learning in which students construct their own knowledge on the basis of their prior experiences with meaningful interaction of learning activities. Learning in the constructivist framework contributes to intellectual, social and psychological development of learners unlike other methods of instruction and enable the learners to construct a knowledge valid knowledge and also enable to transmit it in different context.