Constructivist instruction
Subtitle: success or failure?
By: [edited by] Sigmund Tobias, Thomas M. Duffy.
Contributors: Tobias, Sigmund.; Duffy, Thomas M.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780415994231; 9780415994248; 9780203878842
Subjects: Constructivism (Education); Instructional systems
Description: 'Constructivist Theory Applied to Instruction' brings together leading thinkers from both sides of the hotly debated controversy over constructivist versus behavioral approaches to instruction.
Table of contents: title: The success or failure of constructivist instruction : an introduction / Sigmund Tobias and Timothy M. Duffy; title: Reconciling a human cognitive architecture / David Jonassen; title: Constructivism in an age of non-constructivist assessments / Daniel L. Schwartz, Robb Lindgren, and Sarah Lewis; title: Taking guided learning theory to school : reconciling the cognitive, motivational, and social contexts of instruction / Phillip Herman and Louis M. Gomez; title: Beyond more versus less : a reframing of the debate on instructional guidance / Alyssa Friend Wise and Kevin O'Neill; title: Constructivism : when it's the wrong idea and when it's the only idea / Rand J. Spiro and Michael DeSchryver; title: What human cognitive architecture tells us about constructivism / John Sweller; title: Epistemology or pedagogy, that is the question / Paul A. Kirschner; title: How much and what type of guidance is optimal for learning? / Richard E. Clark; title: Constructivism as a theory of learning versus constructivism as a prescription for instruction / Richard E. Mayer; title: The empirical support for direct instruction / Barak Rosenshine; title: Learning and constructivism / Walter Kintsch; title: From behaviorism to constructivism : a philosophical journey from drill and practice to situated learning / J.D. Fletcher; title: What's worth knowing about mathematics? / Melissa Sommerfeld Gresalfi and Frank Lester; title: "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens" : what about direct instruction? / David Klahr; title: Beyond the fringe : building and evaluating scientific knowledge systems / Richard A. Duschl and Ravit Golan Duncan; title: An eclectic appraisal of the success or failure of constructivist instruction / Sigmund Tobias; title: Building lines of communication and a research agenda / Thomas M. Duffy.