[combat_boots]

Recreating knowledge from the ground up—constructing, as it were.

AKA, reinventing everything.

The opposite of ‘study’.

[TruthConquers]

Ping!

[C19fan]

The term was used to describe early Soviet avant-garde art.

[jobim]

The greatest damage to our Republic by Ayers is being inflicted now; moreso than in his Weatherman days.

All need to research the word Constructivism and education. This is a nation-wide trend now corrupting teaching programs and filtering into high and elementary schools public and private.

I know this because the Catholic school where I teach is now launching such a program, and in my research, lo and behold, Ayers pops up everywhere as one of the prophets of Constuctivism.

Philosophically, it is a descendant of Deconstruction (Foucault, Derrida, ad nauseum) and it drinks from the spring of relativism.

Fuzzy math, creative spelling, emotion-based instruction, non-competition, all-values-are-equal, group learning - you know the sad refrain.

One more thing: content (what is actually taught) fades away to relative unimportance.

[metmom]

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[JenB]

Does anyone have an essay or article to explain this? I don’t really like watching videos, my mind wanders too much.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

One hard truth being that many workers no longer need to be literate. Press a little icon and the machine makes the change and/or the decision. Obtain one's instruction via pictures on TV and other devices. This is why most business are not involved as they once were in pushing literacy-they no longer need it! A few will be trained to read and write. Such people will be analogous to Plato's guardians. Sad but true.

[christianhomeschoolmommaof3]

Your post caused me to do some looking around on youtube last night. There are some truly idiotic things passing as education on there. It makes me feel sorry for the kids that are “taught” this way. We use Spell to Write and Read by Wanda Sanseri. Love that program!