6. focuses on how knowledge is formed and transformed within specific contexts, shaped and expressed through different media, and processed in different people's minds. Describe the genesis of internal mental stability in terms of successive plateaus of equilibrium how learners engage in a conversation with [their own or other people’s] artifacts, and how these conversations boost self-directed learning, and ultimately facilitate the construction of new knowledge progressively detached from the world of concrete objects and local contingencies, gradually becoming able to mentally manipulate symbolic objects within a realm of hypothetical worlds . Constructionism Constructivisim