Imparting Student Centered Pedagogy Through Constructivist Development Theory In Art Education

Genuine learning occurs when individuals are able to transform existing knowledge into higher-order modes of thinking that resolve the conflict and contradictions engendered by the experience of novel events. The constructivist approach has important implications for teaching and learning. If individuals construct their understanding of the world through action, then there is no way to simply teach or give students knowledge. Student or learner-centered education has its origins in constructivist developmental theory and in the progressive education movement in the early part of the 20th century. Constructivism refers to the idea that individuals construct their understanding of the world as a product of their actions on the world. Modular art teaching perhaps shall give a teacher the opportunity to share all possible subjects touching creativity, imagination and appreciating art experience and plan his lessons according to the class potential and need of the students and to make him a life-long leaner.