Building vs. borrowing: the challenge of actively constructing ideas.(Featured Topic)

From: Liberal Education | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: Fischer, Kurt W.; Schawrtz, Marc S. | Copyright information

THE IMPORTANCE of actively constructing knowledge has influenced many generations of elementary and secondary educators, but this constructivist view rarely extends into post-secondary classrooms. College educators often harbor the opinion that their students, now adults, have overcome the need to build their own knowledge. This assumption is seductive because it easily justifies the use of an older, more traditional pedagogy where knowledge is transferred from authoritative source...

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