Ernst von Glasersfeld’s research while affiliated with American University and other places

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Radical Constructivism: A Way of Knowing and Learning
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January 1995

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Ernst von Glasersfeld

Growing up Constructivist - Languages and Thoughtful People Unpopular Philosophical Ideas - A History in Quotations Piaget's Constructivist Theory of Knowing The Construction of Concepts Reflection and Abstraction Constructing Agents - The Self and Others On Language, Meaning and Communication The Cybernetic Connection Units, Plurality, and Number To Encourage Students' Conceptual Constructing.


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... We focus here on the constructs of assimilation, perturbation, accommodation, and equilibration, and we point the reader to Dawkins et al. (2024) for an extensive collection of Piaget's theory in mathematics education. Assimilation is the process by which an individual conceives a present experience via their current conceptual structures (von Glasersfeld, 1995). It is a constructive process that shapes an experience so that it affords and is constituted by those structures. ...

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Competing meanings, perturbations, and engendering shifts in (prospective) teachers' meanings
Radical Constructivism: A Way of Knowing and Learning
  • Citing Book
  • January 1995

... Hence, Piaget proposed that students do not assimilate information and ideas provided by teachers or internalise skills through rote memorization, children can construct knowledge and adapt it to their own cognitive structures. His constructivism gained popularity in education in the late 20th and early 21st centuries (Phillips, 1995), learning was defined as an active process of knowledge construction rather than passive knowledge absorption (von Glasersfeld, 1995). For example, all children may learn the same content, but they adapt it to their own individual perceptions and prior knowledge. ...

Radical constructivism: A way of knowing and learning
  • Citing Book
  • January 1995