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Noun: constructionism
  1. (education) a learning theory emphasizing knowledge-building through active creation of artifacts
    "Students learned mathematics through constructionism, programming their own games";
    - constructivism
     
  2. (sociology) a theory that social categories and concepts are actively created and maintained by society rather than existing naturally
    "Researchers used constructionism to analyse how cultural ideas about childhood have changed"
     
  3. [US] (law) a method or practice of interpreting legal documents, especially the Constitution, according to specific principles
    "strict constructionism emphasizes literal and narrow interpretation"

Encyclopedia: Constructionism