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Theme 2: What is learning?:
Classic & contemporary views
   Imagine the following….friends contact
    you and ask you to advise them (after all
    you are now becoming a teacher!) on…
       How to give up junk food and lose weight
       How to learn Spanish vocabulary
       How to write and then make a speech in
        public (they have seen you do it very well)
       Understand ‘how people see’
   Four cases:
       Different people & different types of learning
       What to do?


                     P Conway, PDE @ UCC                 1
Variety of theories with deep
roots
   Many theories (‘folk’ & ‘official’)
   No one approach has all the
    answers




                 P Conway, PDE @ UCC      2
Some approaches: learning
as…
   Plato: …“recollection” V Locke: …writing on
    a “blank tablet”
   Skinner (Behaviourism): …actions of the
    environment on the learner
   Kohler (Gestalt): …patterns & structure of
    the mind e.g. ‘Aha’
   Simon (Cognitive Science/AI/IP):…as
    “computerlike” phenomenon
   Piaget (Constructivism): ….as an adaptive
    function of an organism
   Vygotsky, Dewey (Social constructivism):
    …as becoming a member of community of
    practice      P Conway, PDE @ UCC        3
The learning paradox
     & theory of recollection
   “I know Meno what you mean… you
    argue a man cannot search…for
    what he does not know…for he does
    not know what to look for; for if he
    knows, he has no need to inquire;
    and if not, he cannot; for he does not
    know the subject about which he is
    to enquire” (Plato, 370BC/1956)

   Recollection: The Myth of Er:
    Drinking on the banks of the
    Forgetful River (but not too much!)
           P Conway, PDE @ UCC         4
The “tabula rasa” blank
slate: Feed everything in
     Let us then suppose the mind to be, as
      we say, white paper [tabula rasa], void of
      all characters without any ideas; how
      comes it to be furnished? Whence comes
      it by that vast store, which the busy and
      boundless fancy of man has painted on it
      with an almost endless variety? Whence
      has it all the materials of reason and
      knowledge? To this I answer, in one
      word, from experience: in that all our
      knowledge is founded, and from that it
      ultimately derives itself. (Locke, 1689, An
      Essay on Human Understanding)
                 P Conway, PDE @ UCC          5
Putting the building blocks
            in place (Locke’s blank slate)




Bringing out out what the learner
already ‘knows’ (Plato’s recollection)
          P Conway, PDE @ UCC            6
Plato & Locke shared some
ideas (mistaken assumptions)
   Learner is passive in both
     Plato: learner as spectator on reality
     Locke: an empty cabinet waiting to be
      filled
   Experience is something that
    happens to a learner
       Locke (YES) Plato (yes)
   BUT Locke’s atomism
       Simple ideas ----> complex ideas?

                  P Conway, PDE @ UCC          7
Behaviourism & schooling
   “Psychology as the behaviourist
    views it is a purely objective
    experimental branch of natural
    science. Introspection forms no
    essential part of its method…The
    behaviourist, in his efforts to get a
    unitary scheme of animal response,
    recognizes no dividing line between
    man and brute” Watson,
    Psychological Review, 1913

                P Conway, PDE @ UCC         8
Classical
                                  conditioning




READ: pp.19-32, Seifert
& Sutton (2009)


                          P Conway, PDE @ UCC    9
Operant conditioning




     P Conway, PDE @ UCC   10
Applications in education
        Behaviour modification
             ABA in regular & special
              education (e.g. ASDs, EBD)
             To develop & strengthen new
              behaviour; To maintain
              behaviour, To stop behaviour,
              To modify emotional response
             Think about: 1. Cues/triggers,
              2. rewards
        Programmed instruction:
         Mastery learning
             Break learning into small steps,
              easy to hard & ‘shape
              behaviour’ up the learning
              pyramid
        P Conway, PDE @ UCC              11
Behaviourism & schools:
Practices, limits & ethics
   Conditioning occurs all the time - both
    classical and operant
   Pay attention to cues, rewards &
    unintentional reinforcement
   Objections: Limits & ethics
       Conditioning beliefs, attitudes?
       Student awareness, thinking, HOT?
       Should rely on intrinsic rewards rather than
        ‘punished by rewards’ (see Kohn)
       Does all learning necessitate direct reward or
        punishment of the learner?
       The end of ‘free will’ (Skinner’s book Walden
        Two, I.e. ABA-based Utopia)
                     P Conway, PDE @ UCC            12

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Pde psych education-behavperspect_p_conway_ucc

  • 1. Theme 2: What is learning?: Classic & contemporary views  Imagine the following….friends contact you and ask you to advise them (after all you are now becoming a teacher!) on…  How to give up junk food and lose weight  How to learn Spanish vocabulary  How to write and then make a speech in public (they have seen you do it very well)  Understand ‘how people see’  Four cases:  Different people & different types of learning  What to do? P Conway, PDE @ UCC 1
  • 2. Variety of theories with deep roots  Many theories (‘folk’ & ‘official’)  No one approach has all the answers P Conway, PDE @ UCC 2
  • 3. Some approaches: learning as…  Plato: …“recollection” V Locke: …writing on a “blank tablet”  Skinner (Behaviourism): …actions of the environment on the learner  Kohler (Gestalt): …patterns & structure of the mind e.g. ‘Aha’  Simon (Cognitive Science/AI/IP):…as “computerlike” phenomenon  Piaget (Constructivism): ….as an adaptive function of an organism  Vygotsky, Dewey (Social constructivism): …as becoming a member of community of practice P Conway, PDE @ UCC 3
  • 4. The learning paradox & theory of recollection  “I know Meno what you mean… you argue a man cannot search…for what he does not know…for he does not know what to look for; for if he knows, he has no need to inquire; and if not, he cannot; for he does not know the subject about which he is to enquire” (Plato, 370BC/1956)  Recollection: The Myth of Er: Drinking on the banks of the Forgetful River (but not too much!) P Conway, PDE @ UCC 4
  • 5. The “tabula rasa” blank slate: Feed everything in  Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper [tabula rasa], void of all characters without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience: in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself. (Locke, 1689, An Essay on Human Understanding) P Conway, PDE @ UCC 5
  • 6. Putting the building blocks in place (Locke’s blank slate) Bringing out out what the learner already ‘knows’ (Plato’s recollection) P Conway, PDE @ UCC 6
  • 7. Plato & Locke shared some ideas (mistaken assumptions)  Learner is passive in both  Plato: learner as spectator on reality  Locke: an empty cabinet waiting to be filled  Experience is something that happens to a learner  Locke (YES) Plato (yes)  BUT Locke’s atomism  Simple ideas ----> complex ideas? P Conway, PDE @ UCC 7
  • 8. Behaviourism & schooling  “Psychology as the behaviourist views it is a purely objective experimental branch of natural science. Introspection forms no essential part of its method…The behaviourist, in his efforts to get a unitary scheme of animal response, recognizes no dividing line between man and brute” Watson, Psychological Review, 1913 P Conway, PDE @ UCC 8
  • 9. Classical conditioning READ: pp.19-32, Seifert & Sutton (2009) P Conway, PDE @ UCC 9
  • 10. Operant conditioning P Conway, PDE @ UCC 10
  • 11. Applications in education  Behaviour modification  ABA in regular & special education (e.g. ASDs, EBD)  To develop & strengthen new behaviour; To maintain behaviour, To stop behaviour, To modify emotional response  Think about: 1. Cues/triggers, 2. rewards  Programmed instruction: Mastery learning  Break learning into small steps, easy to hard & ‘shape behaviour’ up the learning pyramid P Conway, PDE @ UCC 11
  • 12. Behaviourism & schools: Practices, limits & ethics  Conditioning occurs all the time - both classical and operant  Pay attention to cues, rewards & unintentional reinforcement  Objections: Limits & ethics  Conditioning beliefs, attitudes?  Student awareness, thinking, HOT?  Should rely on intrinsic rewards rather than ‘punished by rewards’ (see Kohn)  Does all learning necessitate direct reward or punishment of the learner?  The end of ‘free will’ (Skinner’s book Walden Two, I.e. ABA-based Utopia) P Conway, PDE @ UCC 12