Constructivism is a 4 letter word Slide 13 of 45 Constructivism is a 4 letter word Constructivism is about the character of people s knowledge.
Scientific knowledge resides in the heads of individuals, so the model is self-referential.
When combined with an awareness of the lack of absolute character of scientific knowledge, this can lead to a non-productive relativism in which science is just one more way of looking at the world.