Constructivism may refer to:
Art and architecture
Constructivism (art), an early 20th-century artistic movement that extols art as a practice for social purposes Constructivist architecture, an architectural movement in Russia in the 1920s and 1930s
Education
Constructivism (philosophy of education), a theory about the nature of learning that focuses on how humans make meaning from their experiences Constructivism in science education Constructivist teaching methods, based on constructivist learning theory
Mathematics
Constructivism (philosophy of mathematics), a logic for founding mathematics that accepts only objects that can be effectively constructed Constructivist type theory
Philosophy
Constructivism (philosophy of mathematics), a philosophical view that asserts the necessity of constructing a mathematical object to prove that it exists Constructivism (philosophy of science), a philosophical view maintaining that science consists of mental constructs created as the result of measuring the natural world Moral constructivism or ethical constructivism, the view that moral facts are constructed rather than discovered
Political and social sciences
Constructivism (international relations), a theory that stresses the socially constructed character of international relations Constructivism (ethnic politics), a theory that ethnic identities are not unchanging entities and that political developments can shape which identities get activated Constructivist institutionalism Social constructivism, the view that human development is socially situated and knowledge is constructed through interaction with others
Psychology
Constructivism (psychological school), a psychological approach that assumes that human knowledge is active and constructive
See also
Constructionism (disambiguation) Constructive theology Constructive empiricism Deconstructivism, a movement of postmodern architecture from the 1980s Neuroconstructivism Transactionalism