Editorial. The many forms of constructivism

The Many Forms of ConstructivismIn this issue is a commentary defending "Piagetian" constructivism against attacks from sociocultural constructivists.Fosnot critiques an earlier article by O'Loughlin (JRST, 29, 79 1 -820) and points out that Piaget's later work differs from his pre-1970s writing.The articles are instructive in many ways, showing that we tend to see what we are looking for in educational issues.A couple of years ago I taught a graduate course at Louisiana State University on constructivism.Other faculty and graduate students attended the weekly course and, I think, everyone enjoyed the classes, and the visits to a local pub that often followed.During the semester it became apparent that many versions of constructivism were being discussed.One of the graduate students found the following words were used in the literature to modify constructivism: contextual, dialectical, empirical, humanistic, information-processing, methodological,