Editing Developmental psychology (section)

===Constructivism===
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Constructivism is a paradigm in psychology that characterizes learning as a process of actively constructing knowledge. Individuals create meaning for themselves or make sense of new information by selecting, organizing, and integrating information with other knowledge, often in the context of social interactions. Constructivism can occur in two ways: individual and social. Individual constructivism is when a person constructs knowledge through cognitive processes of their own experiences rather than by memorizing facts provided by others. Social constructivism is when individuals construct knowledge through an interaction between the knowledge they bring to a situation and social or cultural exchanges within that content.<ref name="Edpsych24"/> A foundational concept of constructivism is that the purpose of cognition is to organize one's experiential world, instead of the ontological world around them.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1017/cbo9780511752865 |title=Constructivism and Education |date=1998 |isbn=978-0-521-62135-9 |editor-last1=Larochelle |editor-last2=Bednarz |editor-last3=Garrison |editor-first1=Marie |editor-first2=Nadine |editor-first3=Jim }}{{pn|date=January 2025}}</ref>

Jean Piaget, a Swiss developmental psychologist, proposed that learning is an active process because children learn through experience and make mistakes and solve problems. Piaget proposed that learning should be whole by helping students understand that meaning is constructed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://viking.coe.uh.edu/~ichen/ebook/et-it/cognitiv.htm|title=Overview of Cognitive Constructivism|website=Cognitive Constructivist Theories|access-date=2014-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141215094725/http://viking.coe.uh.edu/~ichen/ebook/et-it/cognitiv.htm|archive-date=2014-12-15|url-status=dead}}</ref>