Constructivism and Epistemology in Education Life 

For  ages, people have been among the society. Education has different perspective so educators and researcher always improve different methods , approaches for facilatating understanding wondering that what is knowledge? and how can people acquıre knowledge? forwhy they improved many theories,aproaches and thougts . All these developments are for enhancing knowledge. Philosopy and philosophers are the basis of the knowledge and education at the same time  but education has different situation from knowledge so philosopy and thinkers have not sufficient lighting and knowledge. In philosophy gives importance only to absolute knowledge . Following this,many approaches put forward such as behaviorism ,direct method or constructivism . nowadays, constructivism is so popular since the World and World ‘s perspectives  are changing day by day. Constructivism sembolizes both constructing knowledge and improving excess of your comment to knowledge.

In old times ,education is lıke a transfer between educator and learner or learners are  like a recorder which is recording educator’s discourse. Information is the most significiant of the education .learners can not add any comment to information and their responsibility is related to take information and memorise. On the other hand constructivism came to existence in 20th century. It has been upholding that learner has ground of realistic knowledge and metaphysical knowledge . Learner is able to mix all clues  about knowledge and create own special permanent knowledge . especially in foreign language learning ,it has very important role because it leads to improve their knowledge with their enviroments .

People have confusion about epistemology and constructivism because they have resemble to each other but ıt has a big difference .Epistemology  is interested in mere knowledge but constructivism is appertaining to process knowledge . ıt focuses on creating ,making and process. Product or knowledge  is main factors of epistemology ,we can not  talk about process in epistemology so it is seen as a short and temporary learning .To sum up,epistemology should not confuse with constructivism.

Group work is another important factor of constructivism which is concerned with communucation and interaction of group members. Because it leads to give change doing discussion and idea exchange . Learners can determine own right way with help of other ideas. They are able to reach different perspectives and   catch change of evaluation these perspectives with own perspectives.In conclusıon, constructivism is about finding and improving yourself in group .

As a consequence, constructivism helps developing ideas of learner . In deveolping World ,producing is more  important  than learning. If human uses knowledge being learned ,human can obtain real and useful knowledge . constructivism helps to learn how to use information ,data and knowledge. Learners are come centre with help of constructivisim in education life.