View All Theories David Kolb, an American education theorist proposed his four-stage experiential learning theory in 1984. It is built on the premise that learning is the acquisition of abstract concepts which can then be applied to a range Read more…
View All Theories Erik Erikson was a stage theorist who developed Freud’s “Psychosexual Theory” and adapted it into a psychosocial (having both psychological and social aspects) theory encompassing eight stages. According to Erikson, we experience eight stages of development during Read more…
View All Theories Howard Gardner is an American developmental psychologist and professor of cognition and education at the Harvard graduate school at Harvard University. He studied under Erik Ericson (Below) and Jerome Bruner (above). He published “Frames of Mind” in Read more…
View All Theories (Memorize this order, one will be missing, you have to place in proper order in test) The basic premise for Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is that students progress through a set of sequential needs from psychological to Read more…
View All Theories Bruner’s Spiral Curriculum (1960). Cognitive learning theorist, Jerome Bruner based the spiral curriculum on his idea that ” We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught in some intellectually honest form to any child Read more…
View All Theories Robert Mills Gagné was an American educational psychologist who, in 1965 published his book “The Conditions of Learning”. In it, he discusses the analysis of learning objectives and how the different classes of objective require specific teaching Read more…
View All Theories In 1956, American educational psychologist, Benjamin Bloom, first proposed three domains of learning; cognitive, affective and psycho-motor . Bloom worked in collaboration with David Krathwohl and Anne Harrow throughout the 1950s-70s on the three domains. The Cognitive Read more…
View All Theories Vygotsky takes a different approach to Piaget’s idea that development precedes learning. Instead, he reckons that social learning is an integral part of cognitive development and it is culture, not developmental Stage that underlie cognitive development. Because Read more…
View All Theories Piaget is an interesting character in Psychology. His theory of learning differs from many others in some important ways: First, he focuses exclusively on children; Second, he talks about development (not learning per se) and Third, it’s Read more…
(Please see full article for notes for each theories) What are Learning Theories? Swimming through treacle! That’s what it feels like when you are trying to sort through and make sense of the vast amount of learning theories we have Read more…