Social constructionism, a theory of how social phenomena or objects of consciousness develop in social contexts
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Strict constructionism, a term referring to a conservative type of legal or constitutional interpretation
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Kenneth J. Gergen instrumental in social constructionism and the concept of generativity
During her time at MIT, Idit co-wrote and published several grant proposals and articles with Seymour Papert (creator of the Logo programming language), and in 1991 they co-edited and published Constructionism, the first book about Constructionist learning.
It developed a discursive version of constructionism in contrast to the more familiar social constructionisms of thinkers such as Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann.
Peter Heather suggests that constructionism and modernism represent two extremes of the spectrum of possibilities.