Constructionism
Revision as of 16:00, 24 June 2006 by Aburton (talk | contribs) (Constructionist moved to Constructivism: Constructionism is a subset of constructivism. The two are not equivalent.)
This is a philosophy of education in which children learn by doing and experiencing. They explore and discover instead of being force fed information.
Much more on this topic can be found by exploring Google using keywords such as "constructionism", "education", "philosophy". One small start is here: http://mia.openworldlearning.org/constructivism.htm
More info can be found on Seymour Papert's website: http://www.papert.org
Also this wikipedia article on constructionist learning
