Yapılandırmacı Öğrenme Kuramının Epistemolojik Boyutları

Abstract

The constructivist learning theory, in line with the requirements of the modern society, introduces new views such as an integrated world view on education, cooperation, tolerance, questioning the outside world, discussing the live in all aspects, and evaluation of the educational practices. This study focuses on the epistemological dimensions of the constructivist learning theory, considering that there is one epistemological characterization/approach adopted by each learning theory. Therefore, the study focuses primarily on epistemology and focuses on basic qualities by comparing the paradigms of the nature of knowledge with the semantic methodology. As a result, individuals who live, act and think in social reality pre-select and anticipate this world they experience as reality in their daily lives through a series of common sense constructs. Individuals must base their experience on their reality to understand any reality in the realm of "living". But knowledge is based on an understanding of the meaning of this experience, not the experience itself. In other words, an individual's ability to make sense of his own experiences is to construct knowledge by looking at his perspective.