Constructivist Learning Theory and Reform of Higher Education.doc

Constructivist Learning Theory and Reform of Higher Education Paper Keywords: Higher Education Reform Constructivism Abstract: constructivism offers a traditional concept of different learning objectivism. Constructivism’s basic point of view, integration of vocational education in our teaching content, teaching reform, vocational colleges, students of subjectivity and creativity, etc. has many useful lessons. First, the constructivist learning theory’s basic ideas Constructivism provides a way different from traditional learning theory of objectivism. Constructivism important concepts are: understanding depends on personal experience, that due to personal experience of the world vary, their view of the world are bound to vary knowledge is the individual result of interaction with the external environment, people’s understanding of things the individual’s previous experience with related knowledge is not taught by teachers get, but the interaction between learners and the process of scenario constructed by the learners themselves . Therefore, the constructivist emphasis on “the meaning of knowledge construction”, rather than the imparting of knowledge itself. learners should be at the center, with the help of teachers who are learners. (A) learning is a process of meaning People’s understanding of things and their own cognitive structures. Learners in the learning of new knowledge unit, is not obtained through the imparting of knowledge, but through the experience of the individual units of knowledge which will explain the changes into their own internal knowledge representation . Knowledge advances by individual learners result of interaction with the external environment. knowledge of the outside world either assimilated into the cognitive structure of the original, but also through the mechanism of Hue, the existing cognitive structure change. (B) learning is a process of consultations Learning process is not a mechanical process of