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Constructivism may refer to:

Philosophy and theology

• Constructivism (philosophy of mathematics), a philosophical view that asserts the necessity of constructing a mathematical object to prove that it exists
• Constructive theology
• Constructivist epistemology, a philosophy maintaining that science consists of mental constructs created as the result of measuring the natural world
• Moral constructivism or ethical constructivism, a view both in meta-ethics and normative ethics

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, based on constructivist learning theory

Mathematics and sciences

• Constructivism (international relations), a theory that stresses the socially constructed character of international relations
• Constructivism (mathematics), a logic for founding mathematics that accepts only objects that can be effectively constructed
• Constructivism (psychological school), a psychological approach that assumes that human knowledge is active and constructive
• Social constructivism, a theory that human development is socially situated and knowledge is constructed through interaction with others
• Constructivist institutionalism
• Constructivist type theory

See also

• Constructionism (disambiguation)
• Deconstructivism
• Neuroconstructivism
• Transactionalism