Sunday, January 9, 2011

Blog Post 1 -Construct vs positivist

Epistomology is a word philosiphors use to describe the meaning of knowledge, and how its aquired. It focuses on analizing the truth or final beliefs. Its more of a word that pertains to the theory of thought and how its aquired. one type, positivist deals with set in stone facts or 'known' infromation and is something that is discovered or learned. there is a lot of infromation out there, but we just have to find it. on the opposite end, constructivist, believe in qualitative research or learning through privious known experiences to devolope an understanding. its an external process to learn the facts. and if i had to identify any of them, i'd say a positivist because i learn and gather infromation by known facts without reaching too deep into them. i see/view info and gather it from there. but sometimes the reasearch and privious experiences prove a great way to learn which is why constructivist is smart. If i had to take a couple facts from this article i'd say that everyone is different. no one learns the same way. everyone has a different way of approaching infromation and distilling it in their memory. being a positivist or constructivist can take either sides of learning, but which ever is most useful for the student is fine. neither one is a wrong way to learn or gain knowledge, as long as the student takes in the proper infromation and understands it, its fine.

1 comment:

  1. I agree that neither one is wrong. Some things are best taught through a top-down positivist approach. Other things need to be experienced in order to understand the true meaning. You mention whatever is most useful to the student. How will you handle this as CFI when you are teaching 2 private pilots and both have opposite philosophies?

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