Constructivism:

Constructivism is a philosophy of education, or educational paradigm, that suggests that students gain knowledge and learn best when they construct a worldview through a process of creation and relate their information to that which they have previously developed. It is based on a process of experience and then reflection on that experience in order to construct new knowledge. In education, constructivism is an educational paradigm and encourages teachers to help students reach the answer themselves rather than simply providing them with the correct answer. However, rather than requiring students to come up with everything from scratch it is instead about using observation and experimentation and the students inherent curiosity and creativity to allow them to develop their knowledge.