Aspect

Behaviourist Thorndike, Pavlov, Watson, Guthrie, Hull, Tolman, Skinner

Cognitivist

Humanist

Social and situational

Learning theorists

Koffka, Kohler, Lewin, Piaget, Ausubel,Bruner, Gagne Internal mental process (including insight, information processing, memory, perception

Maslow, Rogers

Bandura, Lave and Wenger, Salomon Interaction /observation in social contexts. Movement from the periphery to the centre of a community of practice Learning is in relationship

View of the learning process

Change in behaviour

A personal act to fulfil potential.

Locus of learning

Stimuli in external environment Produce behavioural change in

Internal cognitive structuring

Affective and cognitive needs

between people and environment. Full participation in communities of practice and utilization of resources Works to establish communities of practice in which conversation and participation can occur.

Develop capacity and skills to learn better

Become selfactualized, autonomous

Purpose in education

desired direction

Educators role

Arranges environment to elicit desired response

Structures content of learning activity

Facilitates development of the whole person

Behavioural objectives Competency based education Manifestations in adult learning Skill development and training

Cognitive development Intelligence, learning and memory as function of age Learning how to learn

Andragogy Self-directed learning

Socialization Social participation Associationalism Conversation