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Abstract: Geography and Constructivism. Learning Situations Starting from Images. In the first part of our paper we present several theoretical aspects on constructivism, radical constructivism, cognitive constructivism, and on the social one. We started our study from the premise that students did not have the competence to analyse and interpret reality and its representations correctly and that was why they needed guidance in constructing their knowledge, being directly helped by their teacher or indirectly, through tasks that contained explicit prescriptions. In this paper we want to present and analyse certain learning situations organized starting from images, from the perspective of moderate and social constructivism. The purpose of our paper is to point out how reality may be constructed taking small steps, through identifying, analyzing, and interpreting the component elements of the reality that are present in a certain image. According to the features of the learning situation, the student is on a certain knowledge level: the level of identifying the elements of reality or from its representation, analysis of the identified elements, interpreting the identified elements, the applicative level, the synthesis and the restructuring of the identified elements. In our paper we reach the following conclusion: so that students get involved into knowledge situations structured according to the principles of social constructivism or of the cognitive one, they should first get involved into knowledge situations structured according the principles of moderate constructivism, where teachers help them to achieve knowledge models. |
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