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Constructivism is one of the most popular and fastest growing paradigm in recent pedagogy. The fundamental assumption of constructivism is the thesis that knowledge is always and with necessity human construction. All knowledge about the world around us is the result of our experience. Of course, there are many forms of constructivism, although the Polish educational literature generally mentions two faces of constructivism: the personal (inspired by Piaget’s psychology) and the social (based on the psychology of Vygotski). It appears that radical constructivism has not been given proper discussion in Polish pedagogy. This theory, what is important, is the most famous and important kind of constructivism because of its epistemological and educational assumptions and consequences. Therefore in this article I want to achieve two goals: 1) to present the principal assumptions and the thesis of radical constructivism as articulated by Ernst von Glasersfeld; 2) to discuss selected controversies that this model of knowledge and learning has brought about.
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Cognitive science can be divided into two streams: representational and non-representational cognitive science. Within the representational paradigm two approaches emerge: amodal and modal views. The goal of this summary is to review the main theories and interpret the status of linguistic semantics in these. Special attention is devoted in this summary to the theory of Perceptual Symbol Systems proposed by Barsalou (1999), which claims that conceptual processing is modality-specific. An opposing view is propagated by Fodor (1998), according to whom part of our elementary concepts are represented in unstructurable conceptual atoms; the latter are stored in modality-neutral (amodal) symbols. Last, an influential paradigm in cognitive science (Maturana and Varela’s radical constructivism) is presented, which totally dismisses the existence of representations.
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The aim of the article is to reflect on the philosophical foundations of foreign language teaching on the example of teaching Polish as a foreign language. The starting point of the considerations is the constructivist epistemology (mainly radical constructivist by Ernst von Glasersfeld) and the notion of language / language behavior (languaging - formulated by the biologist and constructivist Humbert Maturana). I am arguing that the teaching of language behavior / orienting behaviour should be an integral part of the didactic process. Language is a much more complex phenomenon, and understood as linguistic behavior refers to emotions, bodily reactions, conventions adopted in a given interpretation community, and the areas of consensual domain we achieve during communication with our interlocutors. Although the constructivist approach is known in the world, it can be observed that the practice of teaching is still dominated by the belief about the passive transmission of knowledge. The constructivist perspective applied to the organization of the didactic process may have practicalconsequences for formulating certification rules or organization of work during the lesson.
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Celem artykułu jest refleksja nad filozoficznymi podstawami nauczania języków obcych na przykładzie nauczania polskiego jako obcego. Punktem wyjścia rozważań jest konstruktywistyczna epistemologia (głównie radykalnie konstruktywistyczna Ernsta von Glasersfelda) i pojęcie językowania/zachowania językowego (languaging – sformułowane przez biologa i konstruktywistę Humberta Maturanę). Stawiam tezę, że nauczanie zachowania językowego/zachowania orientującego powinno stanowić integralną część procesu dydaktycznego. W ten sposób problem tego, jak uczyć kultury i jak je połączyć z kształceniem językowym w ogóle nie powstaje. Język jest znacznie bardziej złożonym fenomenem, a rozumiany jako zachowanie językowe odnosi się do emocji, cielesnych reakcji, konwencji, przyjętych w danej wspólnocie interpretacyjnej, i osiąganych przez nas dziedzin zgodności (consensual domain) w czasie komunikacji z naszymi interlokutorami. Chociaż podejście konstruktywistyczne jest znane na świecie, to jednak można zaobserwować, że w praktyce nauczania wciąż dominuje przekonanie o pasywnym przekazie wiedzy. Perspektywa konstruktywistyczna zastosowana do organizacji procesu dydaktycznego może mieć konsekwencje praktyczne dla formułowania programów nauczania, zasad certyfikacji czy organizacji pracy podczas lekcji.
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