Constructivism may refer to:

Art and architecture

Constructivism (art) Constructivism is an early twentieth-century art movement founded in 1915 by Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko. Abstract and austere, constructivist art aimed to reflect modern industrial society and urban space. The movement rejected dec ...

, an early 20th-century artistic movement that extols art as a practice for social purposes *

Constructivist architecture Constructivist architecture was a constructivism (art), constructivist style of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s. Abstract and austere, the movement aimed to reflect modern industrial society a ...

, an architectural movement in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s * British Constructivists, a group of British artists who were active between 1951 and 1955.

Education

Constructivism (philosophy of education) Constructivism in education is a theory that suggests that learners do not passively acquire knowledge through direct instruction. Instead, they ''construct'' their understanding through experiences and social interaction, integrating new infor ...

, a theory about the nature of learning that focuses on how humans make meaning from their experiences * Constructivism in science education *

Constructivist teaching methods Constructivist teaching is based on constructivism. Constructivist teaching is based on the belief that learning occurs as learners are actively involved in a process of meaning and knowledge construction as opposed to passively receiving inf ...

, based on constructivist learning theory

Mathematics

Constructivism (philosophy of mathematics) In the philosophy of mathematics, constructivism asserts that it is necessary to find (or "construct") a specific example of a mathematical object in order to prove that an example exists. Contrastingly, in classical mathematics, one can prove th ...

, a logic for founding mathematics that accepts only objects that can be effectively constructed * Constructivist set theory * Constructivist type theory

Philosophy

, a philosophical view that asserts the necessity of constructing a mathematical object to prove that it exists *

, a theory that suggests that learners do not passively acquire knowledge through direct instruction; instead, they construct their understanding through experiences and social interaction, integrating new information with their existing knowledge * Constructivism (philosophy of science), a philosophical view maintaining that science consists of mental constructs created as the result of measuring the natural world * Moral constructivism or ethical constructivism, the view that moral facts are constructed rather than discovered

Political and social sciences

Constructivism (international relations) In international relations (IR), constructivism is a social theory that asserts that significant aspects of international relations are shaped by ideational factors - i.e. the mental process of forming ideas. The most important ideational factors ...

, a theory that stresses the socially constructed character of international relations *

Constructivism (ethnic politics) Constructivism may refer to: Art and architecture * Constructivism (art), an early 20th-century artistic movement that extols art as a practice for social purposes * Constructivist architecture, an architectural movement in the Soviet Union in t ...

, a theory that ethnic identities are not unchanging entities and that political developments can shape which identities get activated * Constructivist institutionalism *

Social constructivism Social constructivism is a sociological theory of knowledge according to which human development is socially situated, and knowledge is constructed through interaction with others. Like social constructionism, social constructivism states that ...

, the view that human development is socially situated and knowledge is constructed through interaction with others

Psychology

Constructivism (psychological school) In psychology, constructivism refers to many schools of thought which, though different in their techniques (applied in fields such as education and psychotherapy), are all connected by a common critique of previous standard approaches, and by shar ...