personal constructivism

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is a theoretical perspective on learning that sees the individual learner as an active agent in their own learning, and understand that new learning is understood in terms of, and channelled through existing interpretative [interpretive] resources (understood as conceptions, conceptual frameworks, system of personal constructs or the like).

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.