Exercise Your Public Voice

Personally, I believe the ontology of relativism(Guba and Lincoln, 2005) where knowledge constructed depends on the person constructing it. This is evident from my experience of teaching and marking my students work where the same lesson understanding is constructed differently by the same group of students that attended my lesson. Realities perceived by the game players are thus local and specific construction and co-constructed realities(with facilitators). Interactions in video game playing will thus lead to different construction of learning for autistic children. The epistemological view is thus transactional and subjectivist where the constructed knowledge also depends on the background experiences of the autistic child and the subjective interpretation of the transactions. Crotty(1988) has identified the work of Karl Mannheim(1893-1947) and from Berger and Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality(1967) to be the key scholars in social constructionism.
My study will thus embrace the theoretical framework of social constructionism. I believe the reasons are self-evident if one is honest in reviewing how one and others learn from the same observed situation in the same context but ended with different perceptions and understanding of the same observed phenomenon. The ontology is evidently relativism.

My voice on what's real in learing: ontology, epistemology and theoretical framework!
Norman