More research is needed to answer these questions. And they also point out that students do construct meaning in a variety of ways. Although constructivism is a theory about learning rather than a description of teaching, some important strides toward defining the relationship between theory and practice have been made.ituated cognition or learning is a concept advocated in social constructivist approaches and is a natural extension of the importance attached to the context, social and cultural, in which learning is believed to be born.