CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Constructivism, or individual constructivism, emphasizes individuals’ personal experiences in constructing knowledge. In contrast, social constructivism emphasizes how social interactions impact learners’ construction of knowledge.

Detailed explanation-2: -Social constructivism focuses on the collaborative nature of learning. Knowledge develops from how people interact with each other, their culture, and society at large. Students rely on others to help create their building blocks, and learning from others helps them construct their own knowledge and reality.

Detailed explanation-3: -Social constructivism was developed by post-revolutionary Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky. Vygotsky was a cognitivist, but rejected the assumption made by cognitivists such as Piaget and Perry that it was possible to separate learning from its social context.

Detailed explanation-4: -There are many examples of classroom activities that can incorporate Social Constructivism. For instance, collaborative, or cooperative learning involves students sharing background knowledge and participating in a reciprocal nature in order to negotiate and settle on a shared constructed meaning.