Research findings This study aimed to explore whether the fusion of constructivism and
instructivism could be observed in the teaching dialogs during the Engineer Block Building …

The Singapore government has launched kindergarten curriculum reform since 2003 to
promote constructivism in teaching and learning, which seems to contradict the traditional …

Constructivism is one of the most influential education theories in the 20th century. It
promotes that knowledge is socially constructed and the child is an active participant in …

School-based curriculum innovations have been widely implemented in Chinese
kindergartens since the turn of the new millennium. However, in the absence of professional …

The aim of this study was to understand the nature of and mechanisms underlying school-
based curriculum (SBC) development (SBCD) in a typical kindergarten in Shenzhen, China …

ABSTRACT The Project Approach has been promoted in Hong Kong kindergartens since
the 1990s. However, the dynamic processes and underlying mechanisms involved in the …

School-based curriculum (SBC) development (SBCD) has become the shared focus of early
childhood curriculum (ECC) reforms in Chinese societies since the 1990s. The extensive …

Kindergarten is considered as the first significant educational context that children interface.
As a result, it is very interesting to understand the type of learning that they interface in such …

Constructivism learning theory is the further development as behaviorism arrives at
cognitivism. According to its teaching theory: knowledge is uncertain; the learning process of …

This study forms part of a wider comparative research project investigating the mechanisms
and outcomes of school-based curriculum (SBC) development in kindergartens between the …