Towards Realist Constructivism: Implications for Teaching&Training (Communication‪)‬

What can people possibly know: an object as it is or their idea of the object? This question is central to the way people look at the world. If one can know a thing as it is, then the world must be real. Only a real world can have objects whose reality is inherent in them. Whoever knows a thing as it is must get the same knowledge about it. On the other hand, if people can only know the idea of a thing and not the thing as such, the world as they know must be an idea! There are people who look at the world as their idea. They take all human knowledge as mental constructions. They are the 'Constructivists' and their position is called 'Constructivism'. This article attempts to enquire into the constructivist worldview and its implications for two important ways of human resource development viz. teaching and training. It takes a catechistical approach to explain the idea of constructivism to the general reader.