This is the third in my blog series on major learning theories. My plan is to work through the alphabet of psychologists and provide a brief overview of their theories, and how each can be applied in education. Last time, we examined the work of Chris Argyris on double-loop learning. Today, we explore the work of Albert Bandura on social learning theory.
It’s been said that Albert Bandura’s theory of social learning spans the gap between behaviourism and cognitivism. Social learning theory incorporates the idea of behaviour reinforcement from the former, and cognitive processes such as attention, motivation and memory from the latter. In fact, Social Learning theory is essentially – as the name suggests – an explanation of how we learn when we are in social contexts.
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