The Principles of Constructivism

We were request to form small groups and to create a model of ‘The principles of Constructivism’. We were given the opportunity to search through the net in order to understand the principles better. However, none of us managed to build up the model correctly. This is because we never learnt such principles before and the time given to construct the model is not enough. Most of us used the time given to search for the term under ‘The principles of Constructivism’. This is a good exercise for us as we tried to construct a model with principles that we actually don’t even know what it is and we helped each other in understanding the principles thereby the relationship in between us become closer.

            Through the internet we learnt that ‘The principles of Constructivism’ is found by Caine dan Caine (1991) and there and total of 12 principles that is need to be taking as consideration under this principle. According principle of Constructivism the process of learning and education (P&P) is based on the premise of cognition (learning) as the result of "mental construction". In other words, students learn by combining new information with their prior knowledge. For example, students learnt what is chair when they were young. If today we let them see a gold chair, they will still consider the gold chair as chair but not gold. This is because we tend to adapt what we learn with our prior knowledge. Members assert that constructivist learning is influenced by the context of an idea is taught and students' beliefs and attitudes. In order to know this principles better, you can always refer to http://www.teachersrock.net/prinsip_kon.htm or http://www.sedl.org/pubs/tec26/nonflash/intro2c.html .