Thursday, 28 March 2013

Constructivist perspective


People learn by actively exploring the world around them, receiving feedback on their actions, and drawing conclusions. (Roza, 2013).   Prior experience plays an important role in constructing new knowledge of an individual. Learners should be active to build understanding and sense of information. students have to be made self responsible in their learning with guidance from the teacher. So activities like role play, presentation, projects and other cooperative learning practices have to be conducted in the class. As a result students will be able to accumulate more information by themselves and with peers by assimilating and accommodating more.  So teachers should give guidance to the students in their learning despite spoon-feeding them every part of the explanation.

Reference
Roza, I. (2013, March 28).  Constructivist perspectives. Unpublished lecture notes, the Maldives national University, Maldives

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