Learning is defined as a process that brings together personal and environmental experiences and influences for acquiring, enriching or modifying one’s knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, behaviour and world views. Learning theories develop hypotheses that describe how this process takes place. Various theories of learning have been suggested, and these theories differ for a variety of reasons.
Now, I am going to explain briefly one of these theories of learning: CONSTRUCTIVISM
Constructivism is a theory about how people learn. It says that people construct their own understanding of the world through experiencing things and reflecting on those experiences.
Piaget's theory of constructivism argues that individual’s new knowledge is the result of two processes: accommodation and assimilation. When we face something new, we have to connect it with our previous ideas and experience (assimilation), maybe changing what we believe (accommodation), or maybe leaving the new information as irrelevant. In any case, we are active creators of our own knowledge.
In the classroom, the constructivist view of learning means encouraging students to use active techniques (experiments, problem solving) to create more knowledge and then, to reflect on what they are doing. The teachers’ role is to guide the students, encourage them and help in this process.
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