Category: Approach to Learning

I want to enter a career path which will enable me to explore the world of medicine in much greater depth and exercise my growing curiosity about the role of science in the modern world. I hope to pursue in a degree which will stimulate my mind, one that will make me feel most productive and in which I am motivated to succeed, and with no doubt, success means making a difference to the lives of the future.Biomedical science will provide me a strong foundation in the knowledge and skills required for a career in the field of science. The science […]

Main aspect of theoristsPiagetJean Piaget was a zoologist who became interested in children??™s cognitive development as a result of working on intelligence tests. He noticed that children cosistantly gave ???wrong??™ answers to some questions and began to consider why this was. Piaget used his own children to make detailed observations and gradually developed a theory that has been very influential. Piaget??™s theory is a ???constructivist approach??™ as he suggested some children constructed or built up their thoughts according to the world around them. He thought learning was an ongoing process, with children needing to adapt their original ideas if a […]

Principles and Theories of LearningLearning may be defined as a relatively permanent change in behaviour that occurs as the result of practice. Not all changes in behaviour can be explained as learning and perhaps a more simple definition is that learning is profiting from experience, were it not that some learning does not profit the learner; useless and often harmless habits are learned just as useful ones are.If we understand how people learn then we can optimise the learning process. However because learning is basic to an analysis of behaviour it has generated a large volume of research, and a […]

My academic learning to this point has all been classroom based didactic learning, throughout school/sixth form. Since starting at the University of Portsmouth (BN nursing) my approach to learning has developed through the requirements of my course, and the need to adapt my learning to gain the most from this course and be able to develop into a competent nurse with life long learning throughout my career. I have identified there are many different types of learning, mine strength being kinesthetic and auditory. (Vark a guide to learning styles, 2017) In this assignment i will comment on my personal and […]

Harasim (2017) says Constructivist Accepts behaviourist andcognitive ideass but adds that people build their own knowledge throughexperience-based activities rather than being led by teachers. The firsttheorist that supported constructivist approach was Dewey. Grotewell (2008)suggested that Dewey believed that human beings learn through a directapproach. This means that learners must combine with their surroundings to familiariseand learn. My role as a coach or teacher would be to serve more as afacilitator than an instructor (opposite to command style of teaching) Usually,the teacher deliverers information and the job of the students is usually toreceive this information. I think my lesson plan supports […]