Behaviorism, cognitivism, socioculturalism (part one)

behaviorism

-identifying learning objectives and reinforcing behavior (through rewards and punishment
-shaping the learner's behavior to get the desired outcome
-learning process involves learners and behavior
-believe behavior is shaped by the environment
-bad name in academic world, better in the corporate world
-behaviorism and its conception of human nature (people are selfish; do things that benefit themselves)

This theory is useful for learners who lack of drive and initiative. With rewards the learners may be encourage to learn as they feel more motivated. However, i feel that having punishment, they may result in backfire.The learners may feel less motivated and resist learning. Also, this form of learning may not work in the long run.Not all people go for rewards!

Cognitivism
-do with people own's internal representation
-the interaction between stimulus and response
-learning is about changing (build new concepts and theories)
-set up the environment and allow the learners to go explore themselves (independent learning)
-believes people have intrinsic motivation (the desire to learn, oppose to behaviorism concept of human being selfish)

Cognitivism is useful in dealing with creativity and imagination. This is because creativity is not to be taught but to be explored and experienced.Also, i have just realised that cognitivism can be applied to playing of games. i observed that people play the game better as time goes by. this is because in the process of playing, they are actually learning from their experiences and this would be a good example of cognitivism i guess....

Sociocultural approach
-learning takes place across system
-shift focus from individual learner to a larger system
-require content, tools and language
-interaction with others
-ivle

This theory encourages cross-learning across different individual. Like ivle, it has the function of forum that allows students to interact and learn from one another.

i guess the most interesting about these theories are that they are not only applicable to learning (education) but it can be applied even to the learning of our own culture.