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Análisis de Las Corrientes de La Construcción. Constructivismo y Construccionismo Social
Análisis de Las Corrientes de La Construcción. Constructivismo y Construccionismo Social
Constructivism and Social Constructionism are two currents of thought very much in vogue in the USA and some
Latin American countries such as Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela, mostly because of their applications in the field of
Education and Psychotherapy. The authors studied for the analysis of these currents are: Ernst von Glasersfeld, Peter L.
Berger, Thomas Luckmann, Kenneth Gergen and John Shotter. These currents present themselves as a viable model of
the human cognition. The basic thesis of these currents is that either Reality does not exist as such or it cannot be
known, but rather that it is constructed by the epistemic subject or knower; that it is the subject who attributes its
qualities to reality. The basic postulates of this new gnoseology are Piagetian. These currents deny the existence of
truth, of universal essences and of nature. They deny the ontological status of reality, a fact which leads its adherents to
a nihilist point of view. The application of Constructivism in Education will lead its followers to drop the search for
truth and substitute it for the search of viability, from this fact we can derive the consequent moral implications of the
adoption of this attitude. In Constructivist Psychotherapy the patient is invited to make a new verbal construction of
his own reality rather than to focus on the understanding of his problem. For these reasons, a research of the
philosophical foundations of these currents was necessary, mainly because we are not sure if their adherents are aware
of the nihilist tendency implied there, as well as of the moral implications and the fact that no gnoseology based on
idealism is a real gnoseology.
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Qu es el constructivismo?
1 Glasersfeld, Ernst von. Radical Constructivism: A Way of Knowing and Learning. 1re.
The Falmer Press, London, 1996.
2 Glasersfeld, Ernst von. Aspectos del constructivismo en Marcelo Packman,
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