Volume 7 : Issue 2 (2020)

CONSTRUCTIVISM AND ITS NEED IN PRESENT SCENARIO

In present scenario of the 21st century, there will be a demand to equip students with Meta-competencies going beyond cognitive knowledge to develop individual potential with the help of constructivist learning. Advantage of constructivist learning, and criteria for its realization have been well determine through theoretical findings in pedagogy. Constructivist teaching is based on belief that learning occurs as learners are actively involved in a process of meaning and knowledge construction as opposed to passively receiving information. Learners are the maker of meaning and knowledge. Constructivist teaching fosters critical thinking and create motivated and independent learners. By creating a personal interpretation of external ideas and experience, constructivism allows student the ability to understand how ideas can relate to each other and pre-existing knowledge. A constructivist teacher and constructivist classroom are distinguished from traditional teacher and classroom. The constructivism is basically a theory based on observation and scientific study. The constructivism assumes teacher as a facilitator of learning and students are active learner who construct their own knowledge with the help of help of their previous experience and varied learning experience provided by the facilitator..

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