Construction and reality: Mario Bunge's scientific realism and the teaching of sciences through models

In this paper we criticize the constructivist movement, which according to our view has overestimated the role of individual constructions, in detriment to the ontological dimension of scientific knowledge. It will be developed based on some critical papers directed to the constructivist movement an...

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Main Author: Maurício Pietrocola
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 1999-09-01
Series:Investigações em Ensino de Ciências
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Online Access:http://www.if.ufrgs.br/ienci/artigos/Artigo_ID54/v4_n3_a1999.pdf