ISSUE NUMBER ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN

PROSPECTS:quarterly review of comparative education,Vol. XXXI, no. 2, June 2001

CONSTRUCTIVISM AND EDUCATION

 

EDITORIAL

 

Social changes and challenges to education in the twenty-first century Cecilia Braslavsky

 

VIEWPOINTS/CONTROVERSIES$

 

Globalization, education and the technological revolution José Joaquín Brunner

 

OPEN FILE: CONSTRUCTIVISM AND EDUCATION

 

 

  • Constructivism: uses and prospects in education Jean-Jacques Ducret
  • Radical constructivisme and teaching Ernst von Glasersfeld
  • Forms of constructivism, cognitive development and number learning Jacqueline Bideaud
  • Constructivist approaches and the teaching of science Annick Weil-Barais
  • Construction of knowledge and writing practices Michel Brossard
  • Piaget's constructivism and childhood education in Japan Yasuhiko Kato and Constance Kamii
  • The current state of constructivism in Brazil: Some elements for a debate Lino de Macedo

 

 

TRENDS/CASES

 

Content-based teacher education approach versus competence-based teacher education approach C.P. Chishimba

Publishing school performance indicators: some lessons Sjoerd Karsten
and Adrie Visscher

 

PROFILES OF FAMOUS EDUCATORS

 

J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986) Meenakshi Thapan