Author: Dewey Dykstra Jr.

Affiliation

Board Member of Constructivist Foundations

Boise State University, USA

Short Bio

Dewey Dykstra grew up in Maryland,USA. In junior high and high school he entered and won prizes at Science Fairs. He graduated with a B. S. in Physics from Case Institute ofTechnology in 1969 and began teaching high school in the inner city of Cleveland, OH that same year. After three years he moved back to Maryland and taught 9th grade physical science and 12th grade physics for a year. He entered graduate school atThe University ofTexas at Austin and earned a Ph. D. in condensed matter Physics in 1978. He has been on the Physics faculty at Oklahoma State University and Boise State University. He is privileged to have had as mentors: Robert Fuller, James Minstrell and Ernst von Glasersfeld, among others.

Constructivist Approaches

Radical Constructivism

Background Disciplines

Education Science · Philosophy

Publications in Constructivist Foundations

Reader Impact Factor: 7.22

Dewey Dykstra Jr. (2010)

What Can We Learn from the Misunderstandings of Radical Constructivism? Commentary on Slezak’s “Radical Constructivism: Epistemology, Education and Dynamite”

Constructivist Foundations 6(1): 120–126

Radical Constructivism > Education Science · Philosophy

Dewey Dykstra Jr. (2010)

Radical Constructivism Has an Answer – But This Answer Is not an Easy One

Constructivist Foundations 6(1): 22–30

Radical Constructivism > Philosophy

Dewey Dykstra Jr. (2008)

Put Another Way…

Constructivist Foundations 3(2): 72–73

Radical Constructivism > Philosophy

Dewey Dykstra Jr. (2007)

“Once more into the breech…”

Constructivist Foundations 3(1): 8–9

Radical Constructivism > Philosophy

Dewey Dykstra Jr. (2007)

The Challenge of Understanding Radical Constructivism

Constructivist Foundations 2(2-3): 50–57

Radical Constructivism > Education Science

Dewey Dykstra Jr. (2005)

Against Realist Instruction

Constructivist Foundations 1(1): 49–60

Radical Constructivism > Education Science