Abstract

ARJA CASTANON, Gustavo. Constructivism, inatism and realism: compatible and complemental. Ciênc. cogn. [online]. 2007, vol.10, pp. 115-131. ISSN 1806-5821.

Abstract Since the diffusion of Piaget's work, constructivism quickly became the dominant knowledge theory in Education. However, in the last years we have seen a proliferation of different uses of the term 'constructivism' that has generated a great conceptual confusion. The two most harmful confusions are those that artificially opposes the constructivism and the inatism and the one that equally opposes it to the realism. The first has its origin in the diffusion of a new way of radical environmentalism, the social constructivism, which uses the term 'constructivism' but totally stands off of this philosophical tradition. The second came from the confusion between constructivism and its idealistic form, the radical constructivism, which denies any kind of access of the epistemic subject to an independent reality of his own mind. Actually, not only the constructivism is not incompatible with inatism, as it always depends on this in some level. In the same way, the constructivism adheres to the realism in their more important philosophical expressions. Pedagogic theories that don't understand these two subjects generate harmful consequences, as the dissolution of basic concepts as truth and reality. © Ciências & Cognição 2007; Vol. 10: 115-131.

Keywords : constructivism; epistemology; constructivist pedagogy; inatism; cognitive psychology.

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