The inquiries leading us to write this text have their origin in some epistemological issues associated with the (inter)relation between knowledge and reality. While having an investigative approach, we discuss the construction of knowledge by focusing on two different theoretical suppositions. Being a part of a line of study that is regarded as a philosophy of rupture, we describe the presuppositions of the French epistemologist Gaston Bachelard, a philosopher of science who stands out in the discussions about the epistemology of science. According to another field of investigation considered to be systemic and based on interactive approach, we lay out the main fundamentals of the work of Lev Vigotski, a Russian researcher who focused his study on the psychology of human development. In this study, we discuss the approaches used by Bachelard and Vigotski to understand the construction of knowledge and the relations between everyday knowledge and scientific knowledge while seeking to analyze the implications from these different types of understanding for teaching.
Psychology; Epistemology; Knowledge construction; Education