Gaete, A. 2013. ¿Es sostenible el constructivismo radical? Cinta moebio 46: 1-8

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Is radical constructivism tenable?

Dr. Alfredo Gaete (agaetes@uc.cl) Campus Villarrica, Universidad Católica de Chile (Villarrica, Chile)

Abstract

In this work I try to show that radical, epistemological constructivism is an untenable thesis. Not so much because the arguments in favor of such a thesis are deficient, but because there are crucial problems that no constructivist seems to have solved and that must be solved in order for it to be possible to even formulate the thesis in question. I also mention a consequence that these considerations have in education.

Key words: constructivism, radical constructivism, metaphysical realism, epistemology, educational theory.