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The article discusses the four important issues regarding the future of constructivism. These issues include the use of jargon and culture-specific languages that affect the ability of the society to understand the ideas of constructivists, the formation of a formal organization for personal construct psychologists and the need for constructivists to harness their field.

The article focuses on the importance of creating an integrative constructivist psychology theory to address the challenges on the adoption of constructivism theories by mainstream psychologists. Topics discussed include the principles of a coactive systems model on human development within socio-cultural contexts and the conceptual and empirical tools for analyzing psychological structure development.

The article discusses the marketization and unification trends in constructivist psychology and the four constructivism scenarios that were created based on these trends. The scenarious include the preserveration of the pioneering and distinctive epistemological position of constructivist psychology, the strategic alliances between constructivist psychology and other approaches and the gradual disappearance of constructivist psychology.

The article discusses the future of radical constructivism (RC), a constructivist theory founded by American psychologist Ernst von Glasersfeld. The ways on how one can understand the theory are mentioned, including as a pluralistic paradigm and as an extended interdisciplinary paradigm. Details about the theoretical cores of the RC paradigm are also given.

An introduction to the book "Studies in Meaning 5: Disturbing the Status Quo in Constructivist Psychology" is presented in which the author discusses topics including the future of constructivism, the specific constructivist theories and the meaning of careless and parochial constructivism.

The article offers information about social constructionism or the social construction of reality. Topics discussed include the need for people to effectively respond to physical, technological, institutional, and social realities, the different constructivist and social constructionist ideas and the examples of transformative constructions that shape people's potentials and lives, including prescription glasses, laptops and electricity.