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- Title
Students' Ideas and Radical Constructivism.
- Authors
Sánchez Gómez, Pedro
- Abstract
In this article, I study, from the point of view of the analytic philosophy of mind, the compatibility of students' ideas studies (SIS) with radical constructivism (RC). I demonstrate that RC is based on a psychology of narrow mental states; that is, the idea that the mental content of an individual can be fully characterised without any reference external to her or him. I show that this fact imposes some severe restrictions to SIS to be incorporated into RC. In particular, I argue that only qualitative studies can comply with the requirement of narrowness. Nevertheless, I propose that quantitative works can be employed as sources of types in order to study token actual students. I use this type-token dichotomy to put forward an outline of a theory of the relation between school contents and mental contents. In this view, token mental contents regarding a given topic can be defined, and probed, only by resorting to typical school contents.
- Subjects
STUDENTS; EDUCATION; IDEA (Philosophy); CONSTRUCTIVISM (Education); HIGHER education
- Publication
Science & Education, 2016, Vol 25, Issue 5/6, p629
- ISSN
0926-7220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11191-016-9829-3