Correct Answer - Option 2 : provides an opportunity for the students to engage in inquiry and problem-solving.
In Constructivist teaching-learning, we promote learning for the construction of knowledge by learners themselves.
- Learning for construction of knowledge is the basic presumption of constructivism.
- The emphasis is on such a learning environment where children can construct their own knowledge, develop their capacities and remain an active learner.
Piaget’s Cognitive Constructivism-
- Piaget has a firm belief that learning is a constructive process.
- Piaget emphasized an active learner who can observe, act, modify, manipulate, transform and construct own meaning of an object or event.
- In Piaget’s constructivism, a child’s language was an ecocentric and nonsocial speech
Vygotsky’s Social Constructivism-
- Vygotsky is known as the proposer of social constructivism. Social Constructivism approach talks about the importance of social interaction and context in learning. He believes that learning is social in nature.
- it emphasized on social context; knowledge is mutually built and constructed.
- Vygotsky is of the view that teacher should provide an environment to children to construct knowledge with peers and teacher i.e. co-construction of knowledge.
- for Vygotsky, children use a lot of private speech not only from social communication but also to plan, guide and regulate their behaviour in self-regulatory fashion.
Thus it is clear that in a constructivist classroom as envisioned by Piaget and Vygotsky, the teacher provides an opportunity for the students to engage in inquiry and problem-solving. Such that they construct their knowledge through organization, observation, adaptation and by the help of peers.
