Educational Theorists 2

Mediating processes occur between stimuli & responses.
Behavior is learned from the environment through the process of observational learning

• Vygotshy
• Bandura
• Mansura
• Bruner

Children learn best when they interacted with their environments and were actively involved in the school curriculum. 
Children do better if they take an active process in their own learning.
 Children should be given learning opportunities that enabled them to link present content to previous experiences and knowledge. 
Authentic Experiences/Experiential/ Problem Solving

• Vygotshy
• Bandura
• Dewey
• Bruner

How children organize data in different stages of their lives 
Schema 
Assimilate 
Accomodate

• Vygotshy
• Bandura
• Dewey
• Piaget

We learn better through the presence of knowledge from another person.
Knowledge builds upon itself
Scaffolding 
Spiral Learning

• Vygotshy
• Bandura
• Bruner
• Piaget

We learn best in a social environment, where we construct meaning through interaction with others. 

His Zone of Proximal Development theory, where we can learn more in the presence of a knowledgeable another person.

• Vygotsky
• Bandura
• Dewey
• Piaget

People progressed in their moral reasoning (i.e., in their bases for ethical behavior) through a series of stages. 
He believed that there were six identifiable stages which could be more generally classified into three levels.
Right and Wrong 
Good Girl/Bad Boy
Don't steal
Protests against discrimination

• Kholsberg
• Bandura
• Dewey
• Piaget

Students have a hierarchy of thinking and learning:
Creation
 Evaluation
Analysis 
Apply 
Recall 
Remember

• Kholsberg
• Bloom
• Dewey
• Piaget

Follow the child. The child should be independent of planning and executing their own learning.

• Kholsberg
• Bloom
• Montessori
• Piaget

Humans are motivated to achieve certain needs:  
Self-Actualization
Self Esteem-accomplishment
Belongingness 
Safety 
 Physical Needs 

• Kholsberg
• Bloom
• Montessori
• Maslow

Operant -Conditioning  Rewards and punishments

• Thorndike, Skinner, Mason
• Bloom
• Montessori
• Maslow