Activity 3.4 

Airasian and Walsh would criticize the teacher in Bart's class for accepting her students' constructs without challenging her students to justify and strengthen their own ideas. They wouldn’t appreciate the “any-thing goes” philosophy of Bart’s class. However, Duckworth might have appreciated that fact that students in Bart's class are allowed "accept their own ideas and work them through”.

Some tenets of constructivism are being utilized in Bart’s classroom (like the emphasis on social interaction), but, it seems as though it would be erroneous to apply the theory completely as an instructional guide. Seemingly, the goal of constructivism is not to become an instructional practice in itself, but rather to have its principles applied to existing instructional practices as to increase effectiveness.