constructivism
noun
con·struc·tiv·ism kən-ˈstrək-ti-ˌvi-zəm 
often capitalized
: a nonobjective art movement originating in Russia and concerned with formal organization of planes and expression of volume in terms of modern industrial materials (such as glass and plastic)
constructivist
kən-ˈstrək-ti-vist
adjective or noun often capitalized 
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Indignation is not the only element in this series, which takes its style from Russian constructivism and its two-color scheme from the Risograph, a Japanese duplicating machine. 
Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2022 One output of this research is four strategies for effective engagement—conservatism, opportunism, constructivism, and activism. Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021 Babbel is an interesting language learning platform that combines communicative didactics, cognitivism, behaviorism and constructivism in its lessons for faster learning that will stick with you. Dave Johnson, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021 Cognitive dissonance must afflict anyone advocating for social constructivism in today’s rigidly neoliberal corporate environment. Hari Kunzru, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2020 For young historians like Wallace, this shake-up felt like a changing of the guard that occurred alongside academia’s adoption of a new theory called social constructivism, which placed artifacts in a broader cultural and social context. Michelle Delgado, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2020 That’s also the case with the approach known as constructivism — the idea that every society’s scientific theories are a social construct, like its political institutions, and have to be understood as coming out of a particular cultural milieu. Quanta Magazine, 17 Mar. 2015 See More
Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2022 One output of this research is four strategies for effective engagement—conservatism, opportunism, constructivism, and activism. Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021 Babbel is an interesting language learning platform that combines communicative didactics, cognitivism, behaviorism and constructivism in its lessons for faster learning that will stick with you. Dave Johnson, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021 Cognitive dissonance must afflict anyone advocating for social constructivism in today’s rigidly neoliberal corporate environment. Hari Kunzru, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2020 For young historians like Wallace, this shake-up felt like a changing of the guard that occurred alongside academia’s adoption of a new theory called social constructivism, which placed artifacts in a broader cultural and social context. Michelle Delgado, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2020 That’s also the case with the approach known as constructivism — the idea that every society’s scientific theories are a social construct, like its political institutions, and have to be understood as coming out of a particular cultural milieu. Quanta Magazine, 17 Mar. 2015 See More Word History
First Known Use
1925, in the meaning defined above