Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
👐 Learning by doing 📜 Putting into effect
enactive

enactive

8.2
Learning that happens by doing things, like building models or doing experiments
  • adjective
  • /ɪˈnæktɪv/
  • Specialized
translation icon : enactivo
  • Enactive response requires physical use of the body, something teachers rarely need to encourage in today's classrooms.
  • enactive and iconic
  • enactive, iconic, and symbolic
  • enactive view

Examples

  • Bruner's (1966) three "modes of representation," rooted in the findings of Jean Piaget, are reflected throughout these examples: (a) enactive (learning through motor response), (b) iconic (images), and (c) symbolic (remote or arbitrary symbols).

    Academic text (2012)

  • Bruner set forth the premise that there are three modes of representation: the enactive—representation through action; the iconic—representation through some form of imagery; and the symbolic—representation through a symbolic system.

    Academic text (2001)

  • I call this the "enactive" view of the self.

    Academic text (2016)

  • In each stage, which he defined as enactive, iconic, and symbolic, the child saw the world differently.

    Academic text (2002)

  • Let me turn now to Garfield's criticisms of my enactive view of the self as a process.

    Academic text (2016)

  • I described three modes of representation through which learners progress to comprehend concepts: enactive, iconic, and symbolic.

    Academic text (2015)

  • The enactive (or kinesthetic) mode reinforces the necessity to experience or "do," while the iconic mode serves as the bridge between doing and representation in another form.

    Academic text (2015)

  • All aspects of the program—cognitive, affective, and enactive—are anchored and integrated in a balanced individual network.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Learning in an enactive way means that students understand concepts by physically engaging with the material.

  • Through enactive participation in experiments, the students grasped scientific principles effectively.

Synonyms

experient
vsenactive
  • Archaic
9.9

Able to do something well because you did it before

is about learning gained by doing rather than by watching or listening

Antonyms

theoretical
133 6.3

Relating to ideas and basic rules rather than practical use

observational
27 5.0

Based on watching people or events rather than on ideas

How Experiential

enactive
  • Specialized
8.2
experiential
10 6.5
participatory
12 5.7
observational
27 5.0

Surface Forms

enactive positive

Morphology

enactive = enact (semi-transparent) = enact + ive

Related to 'enact'/'act', but the pedagogical sense 'enactive learning' is a specialized technical usage that may not be obvious to average learners.

Etymology

Enactive is built from the parts en- 'in' and active 'doing', the same root you see in action. So enactive learning is learning 'in action' — you understand by doing things, not just by watching or listening.