Learning Theory

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Learning is one of main ways that we change minds. By definition, learning is changing your mind.

Learning Stage Theories: Theories about how we develop through distinct stages.
- Erikson's Developmental Stage Theory: learning self-esteem and trust.
- Fowler's Faith Stage Theory: of different levels of religious belief.
- Freud's Psychosexual Stage Theory: sex images in early life.
- Piaget's Stage Theory: of a child's thinking, from 0 to 15.
- Kohlberg's Stage Theory: of how morals and values develop.
- The Transtheoretical Model of Change: Stages in changing oneself.
- Values development: Massey's three periods of child development.
Active Learning: Learning by doing works best.
Bloom's Taxonomy: Question levels in educational assessment.
Conscious and Competence: A cycle of learning.
Kolb's Learning Styles: Four different styles in this common model.
Learning Channel Preferences: We focus learning on preferred senses.
Set Induction: Preparing for the lesson.
Social Learning Theory: Learning by watching and being watched by others.
Surprise and Learning: How surprise leads to learning.
The Learning Cycle: Applying Kolb in a cyclic way.

So what?

So understand how people learn and teach them by the ways they prefer - not how you prefer to teach (which is probably also your preferred learning style).

Learning Theory

So what?

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