THE LEARNING PROCESS

Nature of Learning

Significance of Learning

Learning Defined

Types of Learning

Nature of Learning

• Formal education is based on the premise that the learning process can be directed and facilitated

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• The teacher will find it difficult to set conditions that will facilitate learning success on the part of the learners.

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• The teacher should understand the nature of the learning process and the facts relating to the conditions under which learning takes place.

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A teacher needs to understand:Psychological PrinciplesTheoriesLaws

Significance of Learning

• The role of learning is the transmission of knowledge and the maintenance of society’s norms and values.

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• An avenue in which individuals learn basic skills, attitudes and competencies.

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• Without learning, transmission of culture and technology will not be made possible

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• Without learning, society risks extinction by the mere fact that competencies, skills or values cannot be passed on to younger generations.

Learning Defined

• Defined by psychologists: a relatively permanent change in behavior potentiality that occurs due to experience and reinforced practice

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• Goodwin and Klausmeier: A process inferred from relatively stable changes in behavior that result through practice or interaction with adaptation to the environment.

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• Good and Grophy:

The development of new associations as a result of experience

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• Garrison & Magoon:

The modification of an organism’s environmental experience.

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• Learning revolves around the concept of behavior

Types of Learning

Sensory-Motor

• Involves understanding the external world through the senses and muscles.

Cognitive• Concerned with the

development of ideas and concepts.

• Includes all from associations between stimuli and responses

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• Associative learning: involves the development of associative patterns by which ideas and experiences are stored in memory.

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• Problem-Solving Learning: involves of overcoming difficulties that appear to interfere with the attainment of a goal.

Affective

• Involves experiences within which emotions and affect take precedence.

• Assimilation of values, mental understanding, emotional reactions

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