Friday, May 11, 2012

Learning Theories

Behaviorism is grounded by the observable change of behavior. This theory focuses on how learning process affects the change of behavior. The behavior can change if there are stimulus and respond. The stimulus can be how the teacher treats the students, respond can be the change of students' behavior.

Cognitivism tries to explain how students think. This theory says that people learn because of their ability to interpret the events or incidents that happen around them. It concerns more in the learning process than the result of that learning itself, since this theory says that learning occurs complex thinking process.

In constructivism, how to acquire knowledge is based on the students' activeness. This theory says that learning is a process managed the students to do active processes in order to build new knowledge based on the data. A learning process must be designed and managed as well as possible so that it can make students organized their own experiences to be valuable knowledge.

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