In short, while it is often assumed that Social Constructivism implies flexibility and indeterminism, there is no logical reason why one cannot treat social constructions as fatalistic.

Doesburg then installed himself near to the Bauhaus buildings and started to attract school students interested in the new ideas of Constructivism.

The school's curriculum is based on the Constructivism approach, which recognizes that students learn primarily by direct engagement with ideas and materials rather than through the passive transfer of information from books or teachers.

* Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations: Universalism, Constructivism and Near-Death Experience by Gregory Shushan, New York & London, Continuum, 2009.

Constructivism and intuitionism are realistic about objects that can be explicitly constructed, but reject the use of the principle of the excluded middle to prove existence by reductio ad absurdum.

Constructivism is not a theory of IR in the manner of neo-realism, but is instead a social theory which is used to better explain the actions taken by states and other major actors as well as the identities that guide these states and actors.

The logical foundation of ultrafinitism is unclear ; in his comprehensive survey Constructivism in Mathematics ( 1988 ), the constructive logician A. S. Troelstra dismissed it by saying " no satisfactory development exists at present.

The standing of Constructivism in international relations | constructivism as an international relations theory increased after the fall of the Berlin wall ( pictured ) and Communism in Eastern Europe as this was something not predicted by the existing mainstream theories.

" Constructivism argues that international reality is socially constructed by cognitive structures which give meaning to the material world.

Constructivism holds the opposite view, that the only reality we can know is that which is represented by human thought.

* Jean-Louis Le Moigne for his encyclopedic work on constructivist epistemology and his General Systems theory ( see " Le Moigne's Defense of Constructivism " by Ernst von Glasersfeld ).

Several traditions use the term Social Constructivism: psychology ( after Lev Vygotsky ), sociology ( after Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, themselves influenced by Alfred Schütz ), sociology of knowledge ( David Bloor ), sociology of mathematics ( Sal Restivo ), philosophy of mathematics ( Paul Ernest ).

According to scholar Dan Grigorescu, his essays of the time fluctuate away from Constructivism, and adopt ideas common in Expressionism, Surrealism, or even the Byzantine revival suggested by anti-modernist reviews.

Around 1919, Janco had come to describe Constructivism as a needed transition from " negative " Dada, an idea also pioneered by his colleagues Kurt Schwitters and Theo van Doesburg, and finding an early expression in Janco's plaster relief Soleil jardin clair ( 1918 ).

In that context, a more evidently Marxist form of Constructivism, close to Proletkult, was being taken up independently by Maxy.

The photomontage became the technique most associated with Berlin Dada, used extensively by Hausmann, Höch, Heartfield, Baader and Grosz, and would prove a crucial influence on Kurt Schwitters, El Lissitsky and Russian Constructivism.

" 2006 In ' Constructivism and International Relations ', edited by Stefano Guzzini and Anna Leander.

The Museum's collection represents some of the leading artists of the first half of the 20th century and many of the major movements of modern art in this period: Fauvism, German Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Russian Constructivism, the De Stijl movement and Surrealism, French art, from the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists to the School of Paris including works of Chaim Soutine, and key works by Pablo Picasso from the Blue and Neo-Classical Period to his Late Period, and Surrealists works of Joan Miró.

Elaborating upon Giambattista Vico, Jean Piaget's genetic epistemology, Bishop Berkeley's theory of perception, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, and other important texts, von Glasersfeld developed his model of Radical Constructivism, which is an ethos shared by all of these writers to one degree or another.

* Accommodation in psychology, the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are modified to adapt to new experiences according to Jean Piaget, in the learning broader theory of Constructivism

The Realistic Manifesto, ( Published August 5th, 1920 ) was written by sculptor Naum Gabo and cosigned by his brother Antoine Pevsner, and is a key text of Constructivism.

Constructivism in Moscow was represented by VKhUTEMAS, the school for art and design established in 1919.

This was opposed to the utilitarian and adaptable version of Constructivism held by Tatlin and Rodchenko.

The Utopian element in Constructivism was maintained by his ' letatlin ', a flying machine which he worked on until the 1930s.

Like the photomontages and designs of Constructivism, early Soviet cinema concentrated on creating an agitational effect by montage and ' making strange '.

Constructivism stems from a number of philosophies.

The Scandinaviant AT school of thought seeks to integrate and develop concepts from Vygotsky's Cultural-Historical Psychology and Leont ' ev's activity theory with Western intellectual developments such as Cognitive Science, American Pragmatism, Constructivism, and Actor-Network Theory.

Maria Montessori ’ s key points contribute to both Humanism and Constructivism ; however, the following quote from her emphasizes her value of experiential learning to conditionalize knowledge:

The poetry of Kosovel is seen to come from three artistic movements: Impressionism, Expressionism and Constructivism.

His Ph. D. dissertation The Engineering of Vision from Constructivism to Computers traces the origins of computer media, relating it to the avant-garde of the 1920s.

Originally called Wells Coates and Partners, the name was changed in 1931 to Isokon, a name derived from Isometric Unit Construction, bearing an allusion to Constructivism.

The artists also brought influences from European movements such as Surrealism, Cubism, Expressionism, Dadaism and Constructivism.

Constructivism as theory and practice was derived largely from a series of debates at INKhUK ( Institute of Artistic Culture ) in Moscow, from 1920 – 22.

Some of these were motifs and the design aesthetic was derived from French Decorative Cubism, German Bauhaus, Italian Futurism, and Russian Constructivism.

Constructivism proposes new definitions for knowledge and truth that form a new paradigm, based on inter-subjectivity instead of the classical objectivity, and on viability instead of truth.

Constructivism has also emerged in the field of International Relations, where the writings of Alexander Wendt are popular.

Constructivism is a category of learning theory in which emphasis is placed on the agency and prior " knowing " and experience of the learner, and often on the social and cultural determinants of the learning process.

' Radical Constructivism and Cognitive Psychology ', Brookings Papers on Education Policy, no.

Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as installation art.

His friendship around this time with El Lissitzky proved particularly influential, and Merz pictures in this period show the direct influence of Constructivism.

He selectively adopted theoretical ideas such as the aesthetic credos of Russian Constructivism with their ideology of " efficient " sculptural constructions using modern industrial materials.

Constructivism is a revolution in educational psychology.

Built on the work of Piaget and Bruner, constructivism emphasizes the importance of active involvement of learners in constructing knowledge for themselves ... Constructivism emphasizes top-down processing: begin with complex problems and teach basic skills while solving these problems.

Constructivism views learning as a process in which the learner actively constructs or builds new ideas or concepts based upon current and past knowledge or experience.

Constructivism itself has many variations, such as Active learning, discovery learning, and knowledge building.

Constructivism also includes the study of constructive set theories such as IZF and the study of topos theory.

Constructivism is often identified with intuitionism, although intuitionism is only one constructivist program.

* A. S. Troelstra ( 1991 ), " A History of Constructivism in the 20th Century ", University of Amsterdam, ITLI Prepublication Series ML-91-05, http :// staff. science. uva. nl /~ anne / hhhist. pdf,

Here, he was the developer of an original and highly influential theory on learning called constructionism, built upon the work of Jean Piaget in Constructivism learning theories.

Variants such as Futurism and Constructivism developed in other countries.

And just as in painting, it became a pervasive influence and contributed fundamentally to Constructivism and Futurism.