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Three Philosophies in Contrast

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and humanists. CONSTRUCTIVISM Constructivism is the latest method in vogue in the teaching and education community. This is a theory by which a person learns to construct their  own knowledge by integrating it with information and experiences they already have. One of the leading modern constructivists is philosopher Jean Piaget. Piaget believed that "learning can best be explained  as an active experience, between the learner and objects or people in an environment. For Piagetian constructivists, learning does not come from a body of information that can be  transplanted to a persons mind, but rather from a vital, constructive interaction between the learner and the environment strongly influenced by prior knowledge" (Piaget, 1971, PG). What we need is  a new form of knowledge worker. As Schlechty puts it, "A knowledge worker is a person who puts to use facts, ideas, theories, beliefs, and supposed forms of knowledge  to produce a product. In the past the need for knowledge work was limited to ensuring that children have the skills needed to access knowledge: to understand and critically  evaluate various forms of knowledge" (PG, 2001). In the past these forms of knowledge were the use of newspapers, books, and other printed materials. All the teachers had to  do was make sure students could read and write properly and have the skills necessary to access they type of knowledge that was out there. Today technology gives us  at our fingertips more knowledge than ever before. We have access to information that is vaster than some can even comprehend. In order to tap into this knowledge,  a child must learn to experience the knowledge and turn it into his or her own. If schools today would teach students to produce work based on their knowledge-experience which