The Social Construction of Learning

摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter discusses learning based on social construction. It illustrates functional psychology, behaviorism, cognitivism, situated learning, and their implications in detail. The polarization between behaviorist cognitivist approaches to creates both theoretical practical difficulties. Organism–environment transactions psychology helped break down the barrier thinking acting as well that individual socio-cultural aspects of change, by focusing activity. behaviorists share a rejection inner mental agents with functionalists, who also think positing egos or minds inside pulling strings amounts metaphysical illusion. behaviorist's external experiment is now simulated mind called problem solving. cognitive revolution replaced outer reinforcement contingencies, trial error search behavior representations search. Objects certain properties value situation are created activity, not reflective thought. transactionalism psychologists emphasis origin paralleled dialectical approach theorists origins symbolically mediated