Construtionism/Constructivism Flashcards
What is the difference between constuctivist and constructionist?
Constructivist is a cognitive conception/interaction
Constructionist is a social conception/collaboration
Connection or separation in constructivism?
Connection!
Clinet: object or agent?
Agent
What are the four themes in constructivism?
Active agency
Order
Self
Social-symbolic relatedness
Elaborate the theme of active agency in constructivism.
People make choices and are active agents in their own lives
Elaborate the theme of order in constructivism.
Humans need to order/organise patterns to make meaning
Elaborate the theme of self in constructivism.
The body and its boundaries are the axes for organising experiences - if our relationships with our bodies becomes complicated/painful it becomes difficult to order/organise
Elaborate the theme of social-symbolic relatedness in constructivism.
A person lives in a web of relationships which are mediated by language and symbol systems
What self-knowledge is shaped by attachment?
Self-schemas
Abstract rules
Expectations for interactions with people and the environment
According to constructivism what do we do in the fact of overwhelming challenges?
Rigidify and disorganise
What does it mean to rigidify and disorganise?
We resist the change but lose routine
Who writes about having to unlearn being a scientist to be a therapist?
Mair (1989)
