I. kənzˈtrəktə̇ˌvizəm, kənˈstr- noun
( -s )
: attachment to or employment of construction or constructive methods or principles: as
a. : an anti-illusionistic style of stage setting that employs practical but nonrealistic arrangements of steps, platforms, and scaffolding for acting areas and that is held to form a mise en scène appropriate to an age of technological progress
b. : nonfigurative art (as that produced by the school founded in Moscow in 1920 as a secession from suprematism) concerned with formal organization of planes and expression of volume in terms of modern industrial materials (as glass and plastic)
II. noun
: a theory of learning based on the assumption that people create knowledge from the interaction between their existing knowledge or beliefs and the new ideas or situations they encounter
• constructivist noun or adjective