Reconciling the Positivist and the Constructivist Perspectives with the Notion of Positioning

Michał Daszkiewicz

doi:10.21697/fp.2025.2.24

Published: 2025-12-30

Vol. 15 No. 2 (2025)

Reconciling the Positivist and the Constructivist Perspectives with the Notion of Positioning

Michał Daszkiewicz

Pedagogical Forum

Section: Colloquia

https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2025.2.24

Abstract

The paper introduces the notion of positioning as a human characteristic representing natural treatment of different educational issues. By analogy to online positioning, the paper outlines two forms of positioning – first, whereby people place concepts on universal scales (depending on how much they value, like, etc. things) and, second, whereby people locate the same facets within individual multidimensional spaces (depending on different non-gradable attributes). The text opens with epistemological grounds of the notion in question in its two variants, and continues with methodological and instructional implications following from two forms of positioning. It proposes positioning as underlying a modern educational paradigm, reflecting the hybrid character of people’s approach and reconciling positivist and constructivist views on education. Throughout the paper, the key notion is applied to spoken language, the approach to which combines scalable facets and non-gradable characteristics, and which has been shown to determine our entire educational (and professional) success.

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positioning, positivist perspective, constructivist perspective, student's approach to speech

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Daszkiewicz, M. (2025). Reconciling the Positivist and the Constructivist Perspectives with the Notion of Positioning . Pedagogical Forum, 15(2), 275–286. https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2025.2.24

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