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1. PRESENTATION on
Basic principles
of learning and
their
implications
-P. SUBASRI,
VOC COLLEGE OF EDUCATION,
THOOTHUKUDI.

2. Learning
Learning is the process
of acquiring new
understanding,
knowledge, behaviors,
skills, values, attitudes,
and preferences.

3. Basic principles of
learning
LEARNING IS GROWTH:
Form of growth.
Natural and Inevitable.
Mental and physical growth.
Pestalozzi, Froebel and Marietta John – modern
education.
Learning is growth through experience.

4. LEARNING IS ADJUSTMENT:
Basic - adjust ourselves to our environment.
Gates and others,
“Learning may be thought of as the
progressive change in behaviour which is
associated on the one hand with successive
presentations of a situation, and, on the
other, with repeated efforts of the
individual to react to it effectively.”
School learning - adjustment toward the goal
of learning.

5. LEARNING IS ORGANIZING
EXPERIENCE:
Synthesis of the old and the new experiences -
results - new organization of pattern of
experiences.
Organization of experiences involves the
elimination of unnecessary habits.
Arranged and rearranged in proper relation.
Finally appropriate learning takes place.

6. LEARNING IS PURPOSEFUL:
Goal-directed.
Learner finds that his desires are fulfilled -
learning is effective.
Irrelevant material is more rapidly forgotten
than relevant material.
LEARNING IS INTELLIGENT:
An insight is gained - processes are
understood.
Understand – intelligence gain – learning can
be long lasted.
Meaningless repetition does not produce
permanent learning.

7. LEARNING IS ACTION:
Learning is the natural outcome to meet one’s
basic and normal needs.
All genuine learning is self – learning.
Individual should be an active participant in
learning process.
The Dalton plan, the Project method, the
Montessori Method, the Kindergarten – Basic
education lay stress on the characteristics of
learning.

9. LEARNING IS BOTH
INDIVIDUALAND SOCIAL:
Learning is more than an individual activity; it
is a social activity too.
Family, community, gang, religious places,
and other institutions.
Social agencies - tremendous influence on an
individual - affects their behavior pattern.
Either consciously or unconsciously it affect
an individual.

10. LEARNING IS
UNENFORCEABLE:
Human learning - human action.
It cannot be enforced upon the human beings.
Teacher must wait for the child to be ready for
learning.
Unenforceable - characteristic of learning.
LEARNING IS A PRODUCT OF
THE ENVIRONMENT:
Learning - takes place in relation to the
environment.
Environment - healthy and rich in educative
possibilities - conductive to learning.

11. TRUE LEARNING AFFECTS THE
CONDUCT OF THE LEARNER:
Changes in the conduct (behavior pattern) of
the leaner.
Every experience produces a change in the
mental structure of the learner.
It affects the conduct of the learner.
Goal of learning.

12. LEARNING FREQUENTLY
DEPENDS UPON INSIGHT:
Insight - “flash of understanding”.
It occurs when suddenly becomes charged
with meaning, or when the solution to a
problem or the way to a goal.
The ability to gain insight depends upon
interest, previous knowledge and intelligence.
Dull child – the teacher should give special
assistance to the child.

13. Implications
LEARNING STYLES:

14. Haynes list out some activities for students
with different learning styles,
Visual learners - computer graphic, maps,
graphs, charts, cartoons, posters, diagrams text
with a lot of pictures.
Auditory learners - interviewing, debating,
participating on a panel, giving oral reports
and participating in oral discussions of written
material.
Kinesthetic learners - playing games that
involve the whole body, movement activities,
making models, and setting up experiments.

15. Thank you