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Constructivism: Theory, Perspectives, and Practice, 2nd Ed. » (2nd Edition)

Authors: Catherine Fosnot
ISBN-13: 9780807745700, ISBN-10: 0807745707
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Date Published: March 2005
Edition: 2nd Edition

Ch. 1	Introduction : aspects of constructivism	3
Ch. 2	Constructivism : a psychological theory of learning	8
Ch. 3	Where is the mind? : a coordination of sociocultural and cognitive constructivist perspectives	39
Ch. 4	A constructivist perspective on teaching and learning science	61
Ch. 5	A constructivist perspective on teaching and learning mathematics	80
Ch. 6	A constructivist perspective on teaching and learning in the language arts	99
Ch. 7	A constructivist pespective on teaching and learning in the arts	110
Ch. 8	A constructivist perspective on the role of the sociomoral atmosphere in promoting children's development	132
Ch. 9	A constructivist perspective from the emerging field of disability studies	150
Ch. 10	"Mathematics" or "mathematizing"?	175
Ch. 11	A first-year teacher implements a literature-based/whole-language program in a fourth-fifth grade	193
Ch. 12	The project approach in Reggio Emilia	212
Ch. 13	Teaching introductory physics to college students	222
Ch. 14	Being there : middle school students as coconstructors of a classroom senate	246
Ch. 15	Teachers construct constructivism : the Center for Constructivist Teaching/Teacher Preparation Project	263
	Epilogue : constructivism revisited : implications and reflections	276