LEARNING THEORIES
- Viki Voice
- Feb 6, 2023
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Learning theories describe how students receive, process, and retain knowledge during learning.
Behaviourism- Behaviour due to conditioning
Cognition- What is known & What the mind thinks
Constructivism- What new self-schemas the learner can create inside & out
Transformative- A transformation in the coach & the learner
Educational Neuroscience- How learning is impacting the areas of the brain & vice versa
Theory of Multiple Intelligence- Various bits of intelligence inside a learner like VAK, VARK, VAKOG etc
EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY
Plato- He talked about the Theory of Recollection or Plato's Epistemology which says that we were born with knowledge, which we have forgotten & we recollect it through life.
John Locke- Tabula Rasa or Blank Slate Theory-We are born as blank slate and life writes on us
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
BEHAVIOURISM:
John Watson coined this word
SOR Mechanism-Stimulus->Organism->Response
BF Skinner-Positive & Negative Reinforcement theory
Classical Conditioning-Ivan Pavlov Dog Experiment
Operant Conditioning-Thorndike Cat Experiment
COGNITIVISM:
Gestalt Theory-See everything as part & as a whole at the same time-Its genesis of many therapeutic techniques today
Other Instructional Design theories that we discussed earlier will come here
CONSTRUCTIVISM:
Jean Piaget's Theory - Pedagogy
David Kolb's Experiential Learning Model
TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING:
Chris Argyris Double Loop Learning
MAR Mechanism-MIndset->Action->Result
EDUCATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE:
EEG-Electroencephalogram-Checks Brain Activity
fMRI-Functional magnetic resonance imaging-Checks Brain Metabolism
MEG-Megnetoencephalogram-measurement of the magnetic field generated by the electrical activity of neurons
ERP-Event-related potentials (ERPs) are very small voltages generated in the brain structures in response to specific events or stimuli
HOWARD GARDNER'S MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE THEORY
MULTIMEDIA LEARNING-Using multiple media to learn or coach
Happy Learning :)
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