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"The principal goal of education is to create people who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done - people who are creative, inventive discoverers. (Piaget)

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Constructivism, and by extension, social constructivism, is the main theoretical position employed in the Guide. Constructivist theorists contend that children are active participants in their learning in that they actively construct new knowledge whenever they interact with their environments (Bakhurst & Shanker, 2001; Smith 2002). In other words, new knowledge is processed mentally, when the 'old' meets the 'new', and then the action follows. Social constructivist, Lev Vygotsky contends that learning cannot be, and should not be separated from social context (Vygotsky, 1978, p. 128). He further stresses that social interaction aids cognitive development. Drew (2012) sees school as the perfect place to begin cultivating student's social interaction."

(SHOTTE, G. RETHINKING PEDAGOGY: ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING APPROACHES, disponível em https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED567155.pdf, p.155, acesso em 20/05/2018.)

Some of the main theoretical perspectives about learning and the theorists responsible for them are: