Learning Theories (Google) (2)

• Behaviorism - this theory can be applied in teaching EPP to motivate students to participate in lecture or hands-on activities.
• Lev Vygotsky - is an important founder of constructivist theory
• Vygotsky - he believed that learning is a collaborative process, and that social interaction is fundamental for cognitive development.
• According to Vygotsky - students learn best when working collaboratively with those whose proficiency level is higher than their own, allowing them to complete tasks they are not yet able to do independently.
• Vygotsky - he identified these concepts as the more knowledgeable other and the zone of proximal development.
• Constructivist classroom - are student - centered with the teacher acting as the facilitator.
• Social Learning Theory - has been developed by Albert Bandura, who works within both cognitive and behavioral frameworks that embrace attention, memory, and motivation.
• Albert Bandura - he argues that children learn from observing others as well as from "model" behavior, which are possesses involving attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation.
• Cognitive Theory - is largely based on the work of Jean Piaget, who rejected the idea that learners are passive and simply react to stimuli in the environment.
• Experientialism - about meaningful experiences in everyday life that lead to a change in an individual's knowledge and behaviors.
• Carl Roger - influential proponent of Experientialism.
• Carl Roger - he suggests that experiential learning is "self-initiated learning"
• Carl Roger - he supports a dynamic, continuous process of change where new learning results in and affects learning environments.