How might followers of a constructivist phiosophy critzize the essentialist and pernenilaist teaching philioophies?

Social constructivists encourage schools, teachers, and students to focus

their studies on alleviating pervasive social inequalities to reconstruct society

into a new and more just social order.

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In a constructivist classroom instruction is active, student centered and

inquiry based.

The classroom is characterized by open-ended questions,

group work, research, exploration, alternative assessment such as portfolios

and narratives written by teachers, learning through problems, and

interdisciplinary studies.

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Essentialist strive to teach students the accumulated knowledge of our

civilization through core courses in the traditional academic disciplines. Instill

students with the "essentials" of academic knowledge, patriotism, and

character development.

Explanation:

It's that simple