Constructivism

According to Piaget, the notion that new ideas and ways of thinking emerge from old ones. (diSessa, pg 268)

1) Individual (or cognitive). Associated with Piaget and Conceptual Change 2) Social. Associated with Vygotsky.

Information and knowledge is constructed within the persons' mind (cognitive) or within a society(situated) as opposed to knowledge being given or taken.

Epistemology that asserts that knowledge is constructed by human beings and not merely discovered from nature.