Constructivism and Teaching: A New Paradigm in General Didactics?

Autor/in	Terhart, Ewald
Titel	Constructivism and Teaching: A New Paradigm in General Didactics?
Quelle	In: Journal of Curriculum Studies, 35 (2003) 1, S.25-44 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0272
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Models; Constructivism (Learning); Didacticism; Epistemology; Teacher Education; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Analogiemodell; Didaktisierung; Erkenntnistheorie; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Deutschland
Abstract	After a long period of paradigmatic stability in the field of general didactics ("Allgemeine Didaktik") in Germany, the proponents of the "constructivist didactics" claim to be formulating a new approach on the theoretical as well as practical levels. This claim is analysed and evaluated. Four background theories of constructivist didactics are sketched; the central arguments of these didactics are reconstructed; some examples of practical constructivist teaching recommendations presented; and, finally, constructivist didactics is critically analysed in the context of a theory of learning in schools. The conclusion is that constructivist didactics is not a new paradigm in the sense that its proponents claim it to be. (Contains 1 note.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10