Educational theories like postmodernism and constructivism play an important role in how learners understand reality through education. Postmodernism holds that meaning is not objectively reflected in reality but is constructed by human understanding and experience. Constructivism also views meaning as imposed on the world through human interaction rather than existing inherently. The main difference is that postmodernism focuses on power dynamics in human interactions, while constructivism focuses on how humans construct and interpret the actual world through deciding between theories. Both theories should be applied in the Cambodian education system to facilitate learners' thinking and application of knowledge to real life.

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Educational theories play a significant role in education, which can provide learners
cognitive learning while they’re pursing their degree in academic life. There’re many beliefs
that are created by philosophers such as postmodernism, constructivism, realism, sexism,
eclecticism, existentialism, and so on, which can usefully facilitate learners how to adjudicate
the reality in both learning and society. Anyways, among of these theories, I would like to
distinguish the postmodernism and constructivism since they are really confusing.
In postmodernism theory, a general and wide-ranging term is applied to literature, art,
philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literal criticism. Postmodernism is largely a
relation to the certain scientific, object to explain reality, which comes from one generation to
one generation. In essence, it’s not simply mirrored in human understand, yet it constructed
as the mind tries to understand its own particular reality. Moreover, post modernism relies on
concrete experience and development, knowing always the outcome of one’s own experience
will necessarily be fallible and relative.
Constructivism is the notion that meaning is imposed to one world rather than extant
in it. In constructivism is also focuses on a real world we experience, yet the meaning exist in
that world need to be discovered by us. Constructivists believe that we impose meaning on it.
They think that meaning is constructed in our mind as we interact with physical, social, and
mental worlds. Thus, constructivism refers to a set of psychological theory that share
common assumption about knowing and learning or about what it has existed in the present.
Based on the theories above, we can differentiate that constructivism covers on the
postmodernism. The main difference, in my estimation, is that postmodernism is concerned

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with the power exchange all human interaction and action. For example, a feminist who is
trying to demonstrate the male hegemony in a certain text or society is postmodernism while
a philosopher who insists that we create actual world by deciding between two comparable
theories is constructivism. In other words, if one is taking about human and the relation they
are postmodernism and if they are talking about we live in or create then that same person is
constructivism.
In conclusion, both postmodernism and constructivism should be applied in
Cambodia context of education. Even though they are quite similar, they can really facilitate
learners’ thinking by following the theories, and put them in to the real life. By learning
through these theories, cognitive learning will be named as a useful strategy to study.