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What Can We Learn From The Misunderstandings Of Radical Constructivism?: Commentary On Slezak’S “Radical Constructivism: Epistemology, Education And Dynamite”, Dewey I. Dykstra Nov 2010

What Can We Learn From The Misunderstandings Of Radical Constructivism?: Commentary On Slezak’S “Radical Constructivism: Epistemology, Education And Dynamite”, Dewey I. Dykstra

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>Problem • What alternative strategies from our experiences using a Piaget-based radical constructivist pedagogy might have more and better results than the current practice of responding in debate form, each side trying to prove the other wrong?

>Method • Use of Slezak’s paper to illuminate the point that the central problem with the interpretation of RC generally used in such writing is that the authors seem not to be able to operate from the central tenet of RC, which is the opposite of that used in realism. Description of how this failure to use the central tenet of RC results …