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Analysing the Effective Learning and Teaching Ways



Analysing the Effective Learning and Teaching Ways

Introduction

The pedagogy can be categorized according to various criteria. Often speak of the general education (which refers to the universal and global issues of research and action on education) or specific pedagogies (which have a different systematized body of knowledge according to various historical realities experienced). You can also distinguish between traditional pedagogy and contemporary pedagogy. It is important to distinguish between pedagogy as the science of education and teaching as a discipline or set of techniques that facilitate learning (Gao, 2008, 52-53). However, Learning is one of the most important mental functions in humans systems. Learning is related to the education and personal development which must be properly oriented and is favoured when the individual is motivated. The study of how to learn is the interest of the neuropsychology, the educational psychology and pedagogy. Learning as a temporary establishment of new relations between being and environmental has been the subject of various empirical studies in both animals and humans. Measuring progress in a while we obtain the learning curves, which show the importance of the repetition of certain physiological predispositions of "trial and error" rest periods after which accelerate progress, and so on. They also show the last relationship of learning with conditioned reflexes (Gao, 2008, 52-53).

Moreover, the learning process is an individual activity that takes place in a social and cultural context. Is the result of individual cognitive processes by which assimilate and internalize new information (facts, concepts, procedures, values), building new meaningful and functional mental representations (knowledge), which can then be applied in situations other contexts where were learned. Learning is not only to memorize information, we must also involve other cognitive operations: know, understand, apply, analyze, synthesize and evaluate. Learning, one curtailed by behaviour modification experience, involves a change in the physical structure of the brain.

Types of learning

The following is a list of the most common types of learning cited in the literature of pedagogy:

Receptive Learning: In this type of learning the subject only needs to understand the content in order to play, but he sees nothing.

Learning by discovery: the subject does not receive a passive content, discover the concepts and their relationships and rearranged to suit their cognitive schema.

Rote learning: occurs when students memorize content without understanding or related to their prior knowledge, finds no meaning to the content studied.

Meaningful learning: the learning in which the subject relates to their prior knowledge and providing them with new consistency regarding their cognitive structures.

Observational learning: learning rate is given by observing the behaviour of another person, called a model.

Latent learning: learning which takes on a new behaviour, but not shown until you are offered an incentive to show it.

Theories of learning

Learning and theories that address the knowledge acquisition processes have had during the last century a great development due mainly to advances in psychology and instructional theories that have attempted to systematize the mechanisms associated with mental processes that make learning ...