The Role of Constructivism in Inter/Multi- Disciplinary Studies

Abstract

This paper attempts to explore the role of constructivism in inter/multi-disciplinary studies – especially in the tertiary educational level. Though a radical re-organization of classrooms with a new attitude to the teaching-learning process has become partially fulfilled, the inevitable moves to foreground the achievement of total educational-dividend of the contemporary generation of students remain still elusive. The present age is an age of inter/multi-disciplinary studies. So, learning should involve social negotiation; knowledge should be relevant to the learner; content and skills should be understood within the framework of the learner’s background knowledge; he should be encouraged to become self-aware; and teachers should switch over from the dictators of classrooms to facilitators or co-learners for a better classroom transaction.