Teachers should provide for and encourage multiple perspectives and representations of content. If no elaboration of the above principles is desired, then proceed to the next section . Learning should take place in authentic and real-world environments. Whether building accurate representations of reality, consensual meanings in social activities, or personally coherent models of reality, experience is paramount. Experience, both socially oriented and object oriented, is a primary catalyst of knowledge construction.
Experience provides the activity upon which the mind operates.
In addition, knowledge construction is enhanced when the experience is authentic. For the social and radical constructivists, authentic experiences are important so that the individual may construct mental structures that are viable in meaningful situations. Learning should involve social negotiation and mediation. While only social constructivism emphasizes social interaction as a basis for knowledge construction, cognitive and radical constructivisms do assign social interaction a role. Social interaction provides for the development of socially relevant skills and knowledge, as well as providing a mechanism for perturbations that may require individual adaptation.