Open AccessReality as a construct: outline of a pragmatic constructivist perspective
Author(s) -
Lennart Nørreklit
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
proceedings of pragmatic constructivism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2246-2821
DOI - 10.7146/propracon.v3i2.18775
Subject(s) - objectivism , constructivism (international relations) , subjectivism , epistemology , construct (python library) , perspective (graphical) , contradiction , realism , constructivist teaching methods , materialism , sociology , philosophy , mathematics , computer science , teaching method , pedagogy , political science , international relations , geometry , politics , law , programming language
Consider the idea that reality is a construct. Are constructivist and realist perspectives not incompatible? Well, they are often construed as more or less incompatible and competing perspectives: Constructivism being mainly considered a subjectivist and idealistic perspective while the opposite perspective, realism, is considered an objectivist or materialist perspective. However, the ordinary usage of the terms ‘reality’ and ‘construction’ discloses no contradiction but a group of nicely interrelated concepts.