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Ernst von Glasersfeld

Ernst von Glasersfeld was a philosopher, and emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Georgia, research associate at the Scientific Reasoning Research Institute, and adjunct professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was a member of the board of trustees of the American Society for Cybernetics, from which he received the McCulloch Memorial Award in 1991. He was a member of the scientific board of the Instituto Piaget, Lisbon. Glasersfeld is known for the development of radical constructivism.

Writer | March 8, 1917 - November 12, 2010
What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function. — © Ernst von Glasersfeld
What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.
What radical constructivism may suggest to educators is this: the art of teaching has little to do with the traffic of knowledge, its fundamental purpose must be to foster the art of learning.
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