The earliest supporters of constructivism can be traced back to Piaget, Switzerland. He is the most influential psychologist in the field of cognitive development, and the school he founded on children's cognitive development is called Geneva School.

Piaget's theory is full of materialist dialectics and insists on studying children's cognitive development from the perspective of the interaction between internal and external factors. He believes that children gradually construct knowledge about the outside world in the process of interacting with the surrounding environment, thus developing their own cognitive structure.

Although the golden age of structuralism was in the 1960s, it was not formed in the 1960s, nor was it born in France. Its history can be traced back to the early 20th century.

At that time, some western scholars were dissatisfied with the tendency of "atomism" in modern culture, eager to restore the tradition of humanities interrupted since the Renaissance and pay attention to comprehensive research. Therefore, they put forward the ideas of "system theory" and "structuralism", emphasizing the study of their structure and regularity from the perspective of large systems (such as various branches of culture or various genres of literature).

2. Different in nature

Constructivism is a kind of knowledge and learning theory that emphasizes learners' initiative. It holds that learning is a process in which learners generate meaning and construct understanding based on original knowledge and experience, and this process is often completed in social and cultural interaction. Constructivism has a profound ideological origin, which is different from the traditional learning theory and teaching thought and has important guiding value for teaching design.

Structuralism can be regarded as a generalized research method with many different changes. Broadly speaking, structuralism tries to explore how a cultural meaning is expressed through what kind of relationship (that is, structure).

According to the structural theory, the generation and re-creation of a cultural meaning is to find out the deep structure of how meaning is made and re-made in a culture through various practices, phenomena and activities as an ideographic system. A structuralist's research object will be as different as food preparation and dining etiquette, religious ceremonies, games, literary and non-literary texts and other forms of entertainment.

3. Different characteristics

Constructivist learning theory emphasizes student-centered, and holds that students are the main body of cognition and the active constructors of knowledge meaning; Teachers only help and promote students' meaning construction, and do not require teachers to impart and instill knowledge directly to students.

Structuralism method has two basic characteristics: emphasizing integrity; Emphasize the timeliness of * * *

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