Educational Strategies Centered on the Beneficiary of Learning

The openings provided by the constructivist paradigm in education have given us the chance to investigate its impact on developing student-oriented strategies. We started by mentioning the constructivist bases of the student-centered philosophy, we highlighted some principles for developing educational student-centered strategies and we analyzed a possible model for ensuring compliance with the principles of student-centering. At the intersection of constructivism and educational praxis we analyzed some types of learning (the Experience of Mediated Learning, Active/interactive learning, Collaborative learning, Simulation Learning, Experiential learning) and ways of achievement. The last part of the study was dedicated to the analysis of some formal contexts of turning student-centered practices to advantage. We consider that our approach, structured so as to gradually pass from constructivist theory to educational student-centered strategies, may constitute a tool that may provide useful formative suggestions for practitioners on various levels of the educational system.

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Venera-Mihaela Cojocariu is Associate Professor in Sciences of Education at "Vasile Alecsandri'' University of Bacau, Romania. She holds a PhD in this field since 2001 from "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University, Iasi, Romania. Her fields of expertise are the philosophy of education and the theory and methodology of training.