Definition of "constructionism"

constructionism

noun
countable and uncountable, plural constructionisms
1. (law) A strict interpretation of the actual words and phrases used in law, rather than any underlying intent.
2. (social sciences) The idea that people learn about, or perceive the world by constructing mental models.
  Quotations
  But is it one constructionism in many guises, or a variety of quite different constructionisms, or merely old issues dressed up in new jargon,
  1997, Derek Edwards, Discourse and Cognition, page 51
  The futility of dismissing social constructionism in favor of some "real," authentic nature outside the social and linguistic.
  2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 134