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Pearls of Wisdom: Learning in Distributed Constructionist Cooperatives

by Robbin Chapman
"... This thesis examines the practical application of constructionist tools for leveraging the aggregate knowledge of a community. It introduces and develops the idea of a “constructionist cooperative, ” a community that shares its expertise via a knowledge database to facilitate richer individual proje ..."
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will examine how PoW contributes to the cultivation of constructionist cooperatives and the dynamics of evolving a culture of knowledge sharing within a community. The Computer Clubhouse, a network of after-school technology centers where young people engage in constructionist design activities, will serve

What is complicated grief? A social constructionist perspective

by Tony Walter, Ph. D - Omega: The Journal of Death and Dying
"... Research into complicated grief assumes that it is a psychological disorder of the grieving individual. This article suggests seven other things that com-plicated grief may also be: a normalizing construct of psychiatric medicine, an operational requirement of bereavement agencies, a concept by whic ..."
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by which society as a whole and families can discipline mourning members, a label applied to those who actively resist cultural norms about grief, a product of a society obsessed with risk, and the result of negotiation between various parties in the bereavement field. If complicated grief exists

ORIGINAL ARTICLE The Constructionist Approach to Framing: Bringing Culture Back In

by Baldwin Van Gorp
"... This article aims, within the constructionist paradigm, at integrating culture into the framing process. Four characteristics are important for this approach: the distinction between the event, the media content, and the frame; the explicit attention to the reconstruction of frame packages; the rela ..."
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This article aims, within the constructionist paradigm, at integrating culture into the framing process. Four characteristics are important for this approach: the distinction between the event, the media content, and the frame; the explicit attention to the reconstruction of frame packages

MOOSE Crossing: Construction, Community, and Learning in a Networked Virtual World for Kids

by Amy Susan Bruckman , 1997
"... In research about the Internet, too much attention is paid to its ability to provide access to information. This thesis argues that the Internet can be used not just as a conduit for information, but as a context for learning through community-supported collaborative construction. A "constructi ..."
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" approach to use of the Internet makes particularly good use of its educational potential. The Internet provides opportunities to move beyond the creation of constructionist tools and activities to the creation of "constructionist cultures." These issues are explored through a specific example

A constructionist discourse on resilience: Multiple contexts, multiple realities among at-risk children and youth

by Michael Ungar - Youth & Society , 2004
"... An ecological approach to the study of resilience, informed by Systems Theory and emphasizing predictable relationships between risk and protective factors, circular causality, and transactional processes, is inadequate to account for the diversity of people’s experiences of resilience. In contrast, ..."
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, a constructionist interpretation of re-silience reflects a postmodern understanding of the construct that better accounts for cultural and contextual differences in how resilience is expressed by individuals, fam-ilies, and communities. Research supporting this approach has demonstrated a

CONFESSIONS OF A CONSTRUCTIONIST: FIFTEEN YEARS OF UNDERGRADUATE INTERACTIONS – FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

by James Clayson
"... To come to grips with the big ideas of statistics, students must often abandon certain ideas about how math works and how the world is constructed. They must accept ambiguity and uncertainty as givens and abandon the notion that there is such a thing as right or wrong answers independent of context. ..."
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. This leads to tremendous emotional stress because it requires more than technical facility. It implies a whole conceptual shakeup that can strike at deeply held beliefs about how we make sense of the world. I use a constructionist approach to help students develop a new perspective on problem-solving in a

They Have Their Own Thoughts: Children's Learning of Computational Ideas from a Cultural Constructionist Perspective. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation

by Paula Kay Hooper, Massachusetts Institute, Paula Kay Hooper , 1998
"... Efforts have been made in recent years to understand how children engage with computational ideas through creating projects using programmable media technologies in the spirit of the constructionist view of learning. Constructionism suggests that children's learning happens particularly well in ..."
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Efforts have been made in recent years to understand how children engage with computational ideas through creating projects using programmable media technologies in the spirit of the constructionist view of learning. Constructionism suggests that children's learning happens particularly well

What’s a Situation in Situated Cognition? – A Constructionist Critique of Authentic Inquiry

by Dor Abrahamson (chair, Andrea A. Disessa, Graduate School Of Education, David H. Uttal, Meredith M. Amaya, Loren M. Marulis, Department Of Psychology
"... Abstract: Four papers by learning scientists engaged either in design research or cognitivedevelopmental studies consider concreteness, context, content, pedagogy, and situativity and their implications for design that fosters opportunities for students to learn subject matter through experiencing a ..."
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insightful connections. The papers jointly suggest that even simple objects may nevertheless undergird emergent situativity that provides sufficient context to which learners can bring diverse personal resources. Model-based design may be as intellectually honest, culturally respectful, cognitively

in a Networked Virtual World for Kids

by Amy Susan Bruckman, Mitchel Resnick, Moose Crossing, Amy Susan Bruckman , 1997
"... In research about the Internet, too much attention is paid to its ability to provide access to information. This thesis argues that the Internet can be used not just as a conduit for information, but as a context for learning through community-supported collaborative construction. A "constructi ..."
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" approach to use of the Internet makes particularly good use of its educational potential. The Internet provides opportunities to move beyond the creation of constructionist tools and activities to the creation of "constructionist cultures." These issues are explored through a specific

Remythologizing culture: Narrativity, justification and the politics of personalization

by Steven W. Quackenbush - Journal of Clinical Psychology , 2005
"... The thesis that the self is a story unfolding in prescriptive space is typically embraced by social constructionists as a radical alternative to naturalistic accounts of human development. Yet, the Tree of Knowledge (ToK) Sys-tem proposed by Henriques (2003) implies that events at multiple levels of ..."
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of analysis (i.e., matter, life, mind, and culture) can be considered as con-ditions of possibility for the emergence of meaningful personal narratives. Thus, the ToK System represents an opportunity to recast the work of naturalists and social constructionists in a framework that is at once sci-
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