Constructionism

by Idit Harel and Seymour Papert

In 1985 the Media Lab was created at MIT to advance the idea that computation would give rise to a new science of expressive media. Within the media lab, the Epistemology and Learning group extends the traditional definition of media by treating as expressive media materials with which children play and learn. The Group's work follows a paradigm for learning research called Constructionism. Several of the chapters directly address the theoretical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893917850
• ISBN13: 9780893917852
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 518 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.