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Chapter 6: The Nature of Learning

Supporting material

    Behaviourism: The Modern Past
    John B. Watson on the science of psychology
    Pavlov’s dog
    B.F. Skinner’s behaviourism
    Binet’s intelligence test
    Henry Goddard on IQ
    Yerkes’ army intelligence tests
    Brain developmentalism: More recent times
    Piaget on child development
    Pinker on the language instinct
    How the brain learns
    Chomsky on IQ and inequality
    Social cognitivism: New Learning
    Vygotsky on language and thought
    Kanzi learns language
    Terrence Deacon on the symbolic species
    David Christian explains the uniqueness of the learning species
    Merlin Donald on the evolution of human consciousness
    Ted Honderich, on consciousness
    Wenger on learning in communities of practice
    Lave and Wenger on situated learning
    The ‘wolf children’ of Godamuri
    Marika and Christie on Yolngu ways of knowing and learning
    Gardner’s multiple intelligences

Keywords

    Behaviourism
    Brain developmentalism
    Social cognitivism

Knowledge processes

    Experiencing the known
    Experiencing the new
    Conceptualising by naming
    Conceptualising with theory
    Analysing functionally
    Analysing critically
    Applying appropriately
    Applying creatively

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  • Introduction
  • New Learning Updates
  • Chapter 1: New Learning
  • Chapter 2: Life in Schools
  • Chapter 3: Learning For Work
  • Chapter 4: Learning Civics
  • Chapter 5: Learning Personalities
  • Chapter 6: The Nature of Learning
  • Chapter 7: Knowledge and Learning
  • Chapter 8: Pedagogy and Curriculum
  • Chapter 9: Learning Communities at Work


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