Constructivist Education, Cess or Failure?

direct instruction is to reduce the material down to a minimal set of concepts, procedures and actions. Constructivists argue that students must create knowledge for it to be meaningful. Explicit instruction advocates argue that discovery learning - championed by constructivists - is inefficient and wasteful. Prominent researchers from both sides of the debate contributed essays sharing their perspectives,. agreement and disagreement between the schools of thought. This book was compiled in response a two thousand six paper by sweller, kirchner and clark. Their article argued that constructivest approaches to education fail because they do not fit into what we know about how human memory works.