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Hershkowitz, Rina – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
The ideas presented in this lecture are based on the observation of processes of construction and consolidation of knowledge by individual students learning in groups within classrooms along a sequence of activities. Whereas the uniformity of the basic elements used to describe the knowledge construction processes may be seen as inclusive, there…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Cognitive Structures, Learning Processes, Individual Differences

Grobecker, Betsey – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1996
Learning differences or disabilities can be best understood and addressed within the holistic/constructivist theory of knowledge construction and the reciprocal evolution of cognitive structures. Learning differences manifest themselves in the spirals of mental structuring activity that guide relational thinking. Such a perspective focuses on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Secondary Education