LEARNING THEORIES

Learning is defined as that process that brings together personal and environmental experience and influences for acquiring, enriching or modifying one's knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, behaviour and world views.

Learning theories develop hypotheses that describe how this process takes place and while the scientific study of learning started in the 1800s, it was a 100 years later before it picked up in earnest.

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The major concepts and theories of learning include:

i) behaviourist theories, with main proponents being Thorndike, Skinner, Watson and Pavlov;

ii) cognitive pyschology popularised by the German trio of Wertheimer, Kohler and Koffka;

iii) constructivist theories developed by Piaget and Bruner;

iv) social constructivist theories promulgated by Bandura and Vygotsky;

v) experiential learning promoted by Maslow, Rogers and Mezirow;

vi) multiple intelligence, introduced by Gardner

vii) situated learning theory and community of practice developed by Lave and Wenger; and

viii) 21st century learning skills

Learning Theories

Learning is defined as a process that brings together personal and environmental experiences and influences for acquiring, enriching or modifying one’s knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, behaviour and world views. Learning theories develop hypotheses that describe how this process takes place.

Different Types of Learning Theories

Behaviourism
Cognitivism
Constructivism
Social constructivism
Experiential learning
21st Centuruy learning

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