CONSTRUCTIVISM

Constructivism was a philosophy in artistic and architecture which was originated in Russia during 1919 which had rejected the idea of autonomous art. The agitation or the movement was in favour of art as a practise for social purpose and had a great effect on modern art movements and also influenced major trends during the 20^th century. Like Bauhaus and De Stijl movement was regarding architecture, music, dance, graphic, theatre, fashion, etc. Constructivism in film explains how people might acquire knowledge and then learn. It is directly application ton education. The theory is all about human acquiring knowledge and meaning from their experiences, which is not a specific element. Constructivism has also influenced the teaching techniques with some research and certain results for this research.

            It’s the idea that learning does not just happen by traditional methods of teaching by standing in front of their class. People such as Jerome Bruner, Jean Piaget, and Lev Vygotsky etc also contributed for this theory. Constructivism is an epistemological belief about what knowing is and how one comes to know. They believe in individual interpretations about realty. Constructivism in film examines certain experiments of early Soviet film makers with special features regarding constructivist film to literature, painting,     architecture, design. It is not concerned with the knowledge, but with the mechanisms of knowledge which is constructed.

            Many scholars have put forth there explanation regarding constructivism, as Von Glasersfeld describes it as, theory of knowledge with roots in philosophy, psychology and cybernetics. Constructivism is all about instruction. Like discovery learning, experimenting, collaboration, basically based on teaching and learning process. Didactic approach towards constructivism as behaviourism and program instructions is all about learning is an active process which slowly and gradually increases the knowledge. And knowledge is based on personal experiences and in our surroundings. Learners continuously check these hypotheses through social negotiations. As each and every person has different interpretations and knowledge; level. The learner is not in a blank state but connects his past experiences and other factored for a situation.

            Constructive discards certain philosophy such as: knowledge is an individual person with some truth in it, meanings can be transferred via symbols, signs, learners can take copies of notes for their own use, concepts can be broken into sub concepts and learning can be in the form of complex, realistic, provide social negotiations, self-awareness etc. Constructivism is basically a model of research in cinema that uses concepts like theoretical construction, development, effects in cinema and there historical experiences.