Associations to the word «Constructivism»

Wiktionary

CONSTRUCTIVISM, noun. (arts) A Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric objects using industrial materials.
CONSTRUCTIVISM, noun. (mathematics) A philosophy that asserts the need to construct a mathematical object to prove it exists.
CONSTRUCTIVISM, noun. (philosophy) (psychology) A psychological epistemology which argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences.

Dictionary definition

CONSTRUCTIVISM, noun. An abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky