Faculty in the College of Education and Counseling have established constructivism as a unifying framework.  Constructivism holds that:

• Knowledge is constructed.  Individuals and groups construct their understandings of the world about them.
• Learning is an active process of constructing knowledge.  Past knowledge and experience strongly influence the construction of new knowledge.
• Teaching well demands learner-centered instruction compatible with the learning process.  Students need active involvement with ideas so they can construct generative knowledge useful throughout life.