Constructivist learning
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Constructivist learning is a learner centred approach of learning. In contrast to a instructional design of learning, whichs aim is to give learners an identical knowledge,and so concentrates on the topic, a constructivist classroom puts the learner himself into the center. Constructivist learning is based on the theory of Constructivism. So learning in a constructivist classroom is based on the idea, that every learner has a specific way of processing information, a specific previous knowledge, what forms the basic conditions, how experiences are made and how a learner learns. So, in each lesson, each learner has his own way of understanding and experience the situation, focuses on different things and remembers different things.
We have no influence on the acitivation of previous knowledge in a single situation. It's rather the previous knowlege itself that decisive in the selction of important things, which should be cognized and remembererd. But the signals from the exterior of our organism are also crucial for our cognition, because they activate and initiate the activity of our brain in the first place. Learning is successful when now made experiences are integrated in, amplify or enlarge our knowledge.
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