Constructivism

Constructivism is the model that keeps the cognitive, social and emotional aspects of behaviour, is not merely a product of the environment or simply a result of its internal rules but their own construction that was produced every day as a result of the interaction of these two factors.
Consequently, according to the constructivist position konwledge is not a copy of reality but a construction of human beings, this construction is done with the schemes that the person already has or is with what they built in their realtionship with the environment that surrounds.
The constructivist model is centered on the person of his previous mental constructs that make new experiences, considers that the construction occurs when this is done in interaction with other. (Vygotsky).
Vygotsky emphasizes the influence of social and cultural contexts appropriate knowledge and places great emphasis on the active role of the teacher while mental activities of the students develop naturally through multiple paths of discovery: the construction of meanings, instruments for cognitive development and the zone of proximal development.
In this sense Vygotsky´s theory gives the teacher a key role in facilitating consider the development of mental structures in the student to be able to build more complex learning. Vygotsky also proposes the idea of dual training, to defend all cognitive function that appears first in the interpersonal plane and later rebuilt, into an interpersonal level, that is to say, interaction with other learning and development occurs when internally controlled the process integrating new powers to the existing cognitive structure. Vygotsky´s contributions have great significance for the constructivist theory and achieved that learning is not considered as a single activity and otherwise be treated as a social construction.

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