Documentos de Académico
Documentos de Profesional
Documentos de Cultura
Theories
Connections
Developing Learning Theories
• Behaviorist
• Cognitivist
• Constructivist
Transformation Learning
Theory
Focus on adult learners
Highlander 2002
•Constructivist Learning Theory
• Key Theorist
Vygotsky
•Transformation Learning
Theory
• Based on cognitive and
developmental psychology
• Key theorist Jack Mezirow
Thorndike Skinner
•Behaviorist Learning Theory
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•Behaviorist Learning Theory
• Learning is a
change in
meaning constructed from
experience
• Focus is on internal aspects,
building understanding
•Constructivist Learning Theory
• Before Vygotsky there was
Freud,
DeCartes,
as well as
Marx,
St. Augustine,
Aristotle,