Constructivism is a revolution in education built on the work of Paget and Bruner. Constructivism emphasizes the importance of active involvement of learners in constructing knowledge for themselves. Constructivism also emphasizes top-down processing: begin with complex problems and teach basic skills while solving these problems. m Constructivism emphasizes top-down processing: begin with complex problems and teach basic skills while solving these problems. Constructivism explains why students do not learn deeply by listening to a teacher or reading text books. Learning sciences research is showing the deeper underlying basis of how knowledge construction works. To design effective environments, one needs a very good understanding of what children know when they come in the classroom. This requires a high amount of research into children’s cognitive development and the learning sciences draw heavily on psychological studies of cognitive development(e.g., Siegel 1998).
The learning theories of, john Dewey, Marie Montessori, and David Kolb serve as the foundation of constructivist learning theory. Constructivism views learning as a process that the learner builds new ideas or concepts based on current or past knowledge or experences.in other words “learning involves constructing persons knowledge from their own experiences
Therefore constructivism is a very personal endeavor where internalized concepts,rules,and general
