LEARNING THEORIES
Door Javier Rodriguez
1. MASLOW
1.1. AMERICAN HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGIST.
1.2. Hierarchy of humanist on the basis needs.
1.3. As the basic needs are satisfied, human beings develop more elevated needs and desires.
1.4. PSYCOLOGHICAL NEEDS-SAFETY NEEDS-LOVE AND BELONGING-ESTEEM-SELF ACTUALIZATION.
2. FREIRE
2.1. EDUCATOR, WRITER AND PHILOSOPHER
2.2. Teaching literacy to adults
2.3. The school objective must be to teach students ´´to read the world´´ for transforming it.
2.4. Education as a practice for freedom
2.5. Teaching is not to transfer knowledge
3. DEWEY
3.1. PEDAGOGIC, PSYCHOLOGIST AND PHILOSOPHER
3.2. Experimental school ( to promote child activity by means of actions that articulate the studies)
3.3. Child born with special impulses of action that must be stimulated and developed by means of teacher's guide)
3.4. Progressive Pedagogy ( to increase the vital studentes capacity)
3.5. The authoritative system doesn´t give people a preparation for life in a democratic society.
4. SKINNER
4.1. Conductivism/ theory of operant conditioning
4.2. The key word in Skinners theory is the behavior
4.3. Learning is focused on the capacity to stimulate or to suppress the behavior
4.4. Learning is produced by means of stimulus and reinforcements
5. VIGOSTKY
5.1. CONSTRUCTIVISM/SOCIOCULTURAL THEORY.
5.1.1. BASED ON THEORY ON THE ASSUMPTION: The human being changes the environment and it changes the human being.
5.1.2. Pedagogical intervention provokes advances that they occur in spontaneous way.
5.1.3. He developped the concept for : Zone of proximal development. ( stimulus to the child to get a comprehensible level-Ability that he doesn't dominate completely.)
6. BRUNER
6.1. COGNISTIVIST/LEARNING THEORY BASED ON THE DISCOVERY
6.1.1. American pedagogist who sees the student as the main character builder of his own learning.
6.1.2. Learning is active, based on the fact that the individual has a cognitive structure. Based on the association with previous knowledge and that allows to build a new one.