ROLE AND NEEDS OF CONSTRUCTIVISM ON EDUCATION

Abstract

Introduction: Role of Constructivism in Education Constructivism is an approach to learning that holds that people actively construct or make their on knowledge and that reality is determined by the experience of the learner. The current interest in constructivism in education follows an almost religious dedication to behaviorist pedagogy by administrators and education psychologist in the united state (Duit and Treagust, 1998: Jekins 2000). Behaviorism in primary and secondary school placed responsibility for learning directly on the Shoulders of Teacher’s and Educationists. Constructivism success may be due in part to the frustrations that educators experienced with behaviorist educational practices. Constructivism has been welcomed as a theory of knowing that more fully explains the complexity of the Teaching-Learning process. After many years om implementation fell short producing positive effects and results with in the complex of the classroom.