Poetry and Constructivism, and Better Learning
A reader from India posted a question on our Constructivism page, asking how constructivism would be applied to a poetry class. Let’s imagine that a teacher were interested in teaching students the poetry of Shakespeare. Constructivism would challenge the teacher to: assure the students draw from their experience to relate to the poem keep a larger context, where they don’t just break down the poem into small pieces but keep the ‘whole’ in mind somehow, someway learners get involved in constructing their own poems and through them, find a way to relate to the poems being taught This activity is easier if [...]
