ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Constructivist

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Constructivist is an adjective meaning Of or relating to constructivism.

Meaning

Of or relating to constructivism.

More Meanings

  1. An advocate of constructivism.

Example Sentences

Social norm scholarship in criminal law, I would suggest, is best understood as a type of constructivist social theory. The emerging literature attempts to explain behavior by focusing on shared interpretations of social practice.
The importance of this constructivist perspective, as opposed to a theory of sexual essentialism which posits sexuality as biologically determined, is that it allows us to think about sex within a social, historical and cultural context. We can ask questions which recognize the importance of our sexual preference, our class, our race

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Related dictionary entries include constructivistic, constructionistic, constructionist, deconstructivistic, deconstructivist, reconstructivist.

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