... between theory and practice arise from the divergent conceptual-frameworks constructivist theorists and educators hold. To examine this, core aspects of the approach centering on process, agency, and holism are examined, juxtaposing constructivist theory to ostensibly constructivist classroom practices...

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... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2021 Transdisciplinarity Relational-developmental paradigm Agency Process Holism Identity formation Higher education Fifty years ago, Jean Piaget and several other academics and higher...

... for Vygotsky. Although this view appears to be mistaken, it does raise the question of how Piaget and Vygotsky conceive of the nature of the social in relation to the individual. The issue of individualism versus holism, and Piaget’s alternative of relationalism, are discussed, as well as Vygotsky’s much less...

... neither the whole is primary, nor the parts, but the relations between the parts. After contrasting holism, elementarism, and Piaget’s relationalism, I then suggest Piaget’s views are close to those of ‘transactionalism’. I then contrast two kinds of structures, those which Piaget calls Gestalt holistic...

...Richard F. Kitchener Holism is a central feature of the organismic model of development. Although there has been some discussion of holism and how it differs from elementarism, a more detailed examination of it is necessary. Two types of holism are distinguished: methodological holism...

.... Developmental theory Holism Person-environment Process Symbolism Werner Developmental Issue Hum. Dev. 25: 303-308 (1982) Werner s Influences on Contemporary Psychology Roy D. Pea Bank Street College, New York, N.Y., USA; Heinz Werner Institute for Developmental Psychology, Worcester, Mass., USA Key Words...