Today, the entire education, especially the vocational technical education is faced with the problem of successful realization of teaching goals due to frequent technological, economic, and social changes. Problems that appear more and more often in education are that students in the Republic of Croatia increasingly lack basic adaptation and anticipation competencies, and these deficiencies directly affect the development of the economy and society of a country. Bearing in mind the stated problem, a constructivist approach to learning and teaching as a pedagogical methodology based on construcitivist theory could be a solution to the stated problem. A constructivist approach to learning by applying active learning strategies to the entire teaching process enables active participation, interaction and cooperation of all participants in the teaching process. At the beginning, this paper gives an insight into vocational technical education as it is carried out today in the Republic of Croatia. Then, the paper explores constructivism as a theory of learning and teaching, i.e. it gives an insight into the three theoretical frameworks of constructivism: cognitive, radical and social constructivism. The main goal of this paper is to investigate the possibility of implementing the constructivist approach in modern technical education and to propose guidelines and possible ways of implementation.