A Learners’ View (ALV) Is Of Choices On The Shortest And Fastest Path To Learning, the Oxygen of Social Life.
Learning is to social life as oxygen is to biological life.
Main Page: A Learners’ View (ALV) of Learning
Theme: Learning refreshes social life.
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FROM A LEARNERS’ VIEW (ALV), learning provides the dynamics in observable human interactions as does oxygen refresh biological life. Learning occurs through human interactions that make social life possible.
Saying this principle another way, a learners’ view of learning exists as social processes. They are observable, measurable, and manageable by parents, educators, and others. This view differs from learning as cognitive and other inferred and unseen processes.
ALV represents the least number of common choices people make while learning a lesson. Lessons viewed this way consist of problems learners solve through trial-and-error until choosing the option that works. Experimental behavioral and social scientists have been describing these choices for more than a century.
Choices frame an infrastructure of learning. Evidence does not exist that learning occurs without these choices. Neither does evidence exist that society survives without human interactions commonly called learning.
References
- Homans, G. (1969). Prologue: The sociological relevance of behaviorism. In R. Burgess and D. Bushell (Eds.), Behavioral Sociology: The Experimental Analysis of Social Process. NY: Columbia University Press, pp.1-26.
- Tanzeem Choudhury and James Kitts, Modeling Social Dynamics: Sharing Perspectives across Disciplines, October 5 – 6, 2006 Workshop Report
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Last Edited: June 27, 2016