6 Education Theories
There are 5 overarching paradigms of educational learning theories; behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, design/brain-based, humanism and 21st Century skills. Below, you will find a brief outline of each educational learning theory, along with links to resources that may be helpful.
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development. Piaget is an interesting character in Psychology. Learning involves the reorganization of experiences, either by attaining new insights or changing old ones. Thus, learning is a change in knowledge which is stored in memory, and not just a change in behavior. Examples and applications of cognitive learning theory: Classifying or chunking information. Lev Vygotsky – How do you decide the level at which to instruct your students? Vygotsky says to.
Learning Theories
During the eighteenth century, there were many influential writer, but the one who beat all odds and came out valedictorian would be Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
He did not value education, that’s when he was younger, he skipped school. He believed any strive towards learning will corrupt mankind and acquiring knowledge will destroy men’s innocence. He condemned libraries and universities, stating that all things educational should be burned down. Pretty ironic for a man who is known for his modern educational theory. His reasoning is that society corrupts mankind, because men are naturally good.
He was a very fond of the developmental systems theory, in which children create their own development. According to rousseau, evil sprouts its wings and flies, the day competition arose from looking at another man.
He was a righteous man, who firmly belived in collectivism. Like Hobbes, the only way to preserve a person’s right was to enter in a social contact; stating that nobody is above the law. Both Rousseau and Locke argued that
lternatively, John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau have argued that we