Social Constructivist Teaching: Affordances and Constraints

by Jere Brophy

This volume is a sympathetic but analytical and critical view of social constructivist teaching, considering both its affordances (what it offers to students when implemented well in situations for which it is well suited) and its constraints (enabling conditions; situations in which these conditions are absent and other forms of teaching are more appropriate). Contributors were asked to explain what social constructivist teaching means in the areas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762308737
• ISBN13: 9780762308736
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Jai Press Inc.
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"