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constructivism [kənˈstrʌktɪˌvɪzəm] n 1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Movements) a movement in abstract art evolved in Russia after World War I, primarily by Naum Gabo, the Russian-born US sculptor (1890-1977), which explored the use of movement and machine-age materials in sculpture and had considerable influence on modern art and architecture 2. (Philosophy) Philosophy the theory that mathematical entities do not exist independently of our construction of them Compare intuitionism [4] finitism constructivist adj & n constructivism the theories, attitudes, and techniques of a group of Soviet writers of the 1920s who attempted to reconcile ideological beliefs with technical achievement, especially in stage design, where effects produced were geometrical and nonrepresentational. — constructivist, n., adj. See also: Dramathe theories, attitudes, and techniques of a group of Soviet writers of the 1920s who attempted to reconcile ideological beliefs with technical achievement, especially in stage design, where the effects produced were geometrical and nonrepresentational. — constructivist, n., adj. See also: Literary Style
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| The basic principle of constructivism is that students learnt by "interacting" with learning materials rather than observing them. As part of a more general fascination with the constructivism of historical knowledge and popular memory, Fitzhugh Brundage offers a glittering set of related essays that effectively bring the story told by David Blight's pace-setting Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001), which leaves off at the turn of the 20th century, up to the present moment. Essentialism holds that there is an unchanging core experience across cultures, while constructivism or contextualism claims that a mystical phenomenon is the product of its historical, cultural, and religious context. |
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