THE CONSTRUCTIONIST THEORY

Abstract

Of the various recent educational paradigms, which contribute significantly to the school teaching-learning process, many make use of the so-called New Information and Communication Technologies (NTICs). Such technologies can contribute to increasing the quality of education. Given this educational scenario, aided by digital tools, two important technological approaches can be used in the class, instructionism and constructionism, both idealized by professor and researcher Seymour Papert. This article discusses these two technological approaches, or also understood as educational paradigms, which in the author's view of this article are not exclusionary, can even be merged and cut to the prologue of a new theory. This article inserts a new academic term, from the stoning of both papert approaches. Because it is a methodical and organized knowledge, hypothetical in character for a specific area, the one originally referred to as consinstruccionist theory is presented in this article. This new theory summarizes a set of concepts understood in this new term juxtaposed, in order to verify and explain this observable aspect. In a view, the author proposes a selection and union of the best practices of both approaches, seeking to go beyond, because always with the aim of aiming at a contribution in improving the teaching-learning processes.