LEARNING THEORIES (2 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, student will be able to: Explain the basic concepts of learning theories; Discuss learning theories in teaching for primary students; Compare several approaches on learning theory; Review the implementation learning theory in primary education.

Topics:

1. Course Overview & Introduction to Learning Theories;
2. What is learning? The Role of Theory in Learning;
3. Approaches to the Study of Learning;
4. Early Behaviorist Theories;
5. B.F Skinner’s Operant Conditioning;
6. Edward Lee Thorndike;
7. Gestalt Psychololgy & Edward Chace Tolman;
8. Robert Gagne’s Condition of Learning;
9. Jean Piaget’s Cognitive-Development Theory;
10. Lev S. Vygotsky’s Cultural-Historical Theory of Psychological Development;
11. Albert Bandura’s Social-Cognitive Learning Theory;
12. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov & Edwin Ray Guthrie;
13. The Principle Learning in Primary Education & Current Trends in Learning Theory.