EDUCATIONAL THEORISTS

Educational theorists

Abstract

In this study, we try to explore the concept of “Learning theories” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “Learning theories” and its relation with “teaching.” The research also analyzes many aspects of “Learning theories” and tries to gauge its effect on “teaching.” Finally, the research describes various factors, which are responsible for “Learning theories,” and tries to describe the overall effect of “Learning theories” on “teaching.”

Table of contents

ABSTRACTI

introduction1

discussion1

Albert Bandura1

Benjamin bloom2

Jerome Bruner3

Erik Erikson4

Howard Gardner5

Lawrence Kohlberg6

Level I: Pre-conventional morality, of 4 to 10 years.6

Level II: Compliance with plain paper or conventional ranges from 10 to 13 years old.6

Level III: autonomous moral principles, from 13 years onwards.7

Abraham Maslow7

Maria Montessori8

William Fritz Jean Piaget9

Lev Semenovich Vygotsky10

CONCLUSION11

REFERENCES12

Educational theorist

Introduction

We can define childhood as the span of life of a person between the time of his birth and adolescence. From an anthropological perspective, childhood is a product of human, historical development, and a relatively recent result in the history of humankind.

In this report, I will discuss the work of 10 different theorists in the field of child development and will discuss three principles of each theorist, which are applicable in the field of child education. This will help in the process of child development that I will conduct later in the same program.

Discussion

Albert Bandura

Albert Bandura was born on 4 December 1925 in the city of Mundari in Alberta. He was a psychologist, who was well known for his exploit on the concept of social theory of learning and work on social, cognitive sense of a human. He has performed notable amount of work on the concept of development of a child.

The first principle of Bandura was attention. If someone wants to learn something, he needs to be paying attention. Similarly, anything that put a halt to the attention will result in detriment to learning, including learning by observation. As a teacher, I will have to focus on things in my classroom environment that influence the attention of the children. If the environment is attractive or prestigious, or appears to be particularly competent, children will pay more attention, and this will surely help us in educating a child (Bandura 1977).

The second principle of Bandura is retention. Children will be able to retain i.e. remember that things to which they have paid attention. This is where imagination and language come into play and the role of a teacher. A teacher can help children in retaining things when he/she will pay attention to the environment.

The third principle is reproduction. At this point, a teacher should make children daydream. A teacher has to facilitate children in translating images or descriptions to their current behavior. Therefore, the first thing is we should be able to reproduce the desired behavior. This will help children in learning and thus development of the children will occur.

Benjamin bloom

Benjamin Bloom was born in Lansford, Pennsylvania, on February 21 1913, was an influential American a psychologist in the field of child ...