The whole idea behind constructivism, is that people only ever really learn something new, if they can connect it in some way (or construct it) with something they already understand. The implication for teaching, is that you need to start with what your students already know. If you're not helping them to build on their own existing understanding, you are not teaching them anything at all. Makes sense to me!
You can't teach the principles of multiplication, for example, to kids who can't count yet. Or even to kids who can count, but don't yet fully understand addition. Little ones just starting school have begun a journey that will take them to multiplication and beyond, but they are still a long way off. They don't yet have the background concepts they will need.
So if this is the way all of us learn (and I think it is) what are the implications for understanding God as teacher? If He is really about communicating with us, changing our hearts, and growing us from the inside... wouldn't you expect Him to begin the conversation, in whatever form it takes, with what we already understand about the world?
