Situating Constructionism
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Title
Situating Constructionism
Abstract/Description
In 1985 the Media Lab was created at MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] to advance the idea that computation would give rise to a new science of expressive media. Within the Media Lab, the Epistemology & Learning Group, directed by Seymour Papert, extends the traditional definition of media by treating as expressive media materials with which children play and learn. The group's work follows Papert's paradigm for learning research called Constructionism. Several of the chapters directly address the theoretical formulations of Constructionism, and others describe experimental studies which enrich and confirm different aspects of the idea. Thus this volume can be taken as the most extensive and definitive statement to date of this approach to media and education research and practice. The book is structured around four major themes: learning through design and programming; epistemological styles in constructionist learning; children and cybernetics; [and] video as a research tool.
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Date
In publication
Series
Editor
Publisher
Ablex Publishing
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Medium
Print
Background/context type
Conceptual
Open access/free-text available
No
Peer reviewed
No
ISBN
978-0-89391-785-2 978-0-89391-786-9
Citation
Papert, S. (1991). Situating Constructionism. In I. Harel & S. Papert (Eds.), Constructionism (pp. xi, 518). Ablex Publishing.
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Theoretical
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