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 Constructivist teaching is based on constructivist learning theory. Constructivist teaching is based on the belief that learning occurs as learners are actively involved in a process of meaning and knowledge construction as opposed to passive ...

, 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 Intuitionistic type theory (also known as constructive type theory, or Martin-Löf type theory) is a type theory and an alternative Foundations of mathematics, foundation of mathematics. Intuitionistic type theory was created by Per Martin-Löf, a ...

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) In psychology, constructivism refers to many schools of thought that, though extraordinarily different in their techniques (applied in fields such as education and psychotherapy), are all connected by a common critique of previous standard approac ...