Skip to content
  • News
  • New Learning
  • Literacies
  • Multiliteracies
  • Learning By Design
  • Assess-As-You-Go
  • Kalantzis & Cope
Join the conversation

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
Bransford, Brown and Cocking on 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


Previous||Next


  • 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


Search

Join the conversation

 

Feedback and Suggestions

Copyright © 2011, Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope.