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The Importance of Education: Inspiring Future Generations to Learn and Grow

This piece explores the vital role education plays in preparing individuals for the future and raising families. It emphasizes the need to inspire young children to develop a love for learning and understand the significance of what they are learning. The article discusses various learning philosophies, comparing behaviorist and cognitive approaches, as well as situative perspectives from notable theorists like Piaget, Thorndike, Dewey, and Vygotsky. Ultimately, it asserts the importance of cognitive growth and the internalization of knowledge in shaping our understanding of learning.

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The Importance of Education: Inspiring Future Generations to Learn and Grow

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  1. Education

  2. By Samantha Fummerton

  3. Why is it important To obtain a job in the future. To know how to raise a family

  4. My inspiration! • I want to inspire young children to become excited about learning! • They should WANT to learn • They should know the MEANING behind what they are learning

  5. Definitions of learning…

  6. Educational Psychology

  7. Two different frames

  8. Who agrees with what??

  9. Results! The class seemed to have the majority of our learning Philosophies agree with COGNITIVE!

  10. Behaviorist • example: Thorndike • Empiricist • associated with associationist, behaviorist theory • learning is forming associations • transfer is direct • OUT of the head – behavior ONLY

  11. Cognitive • example: Piaget • Rationalist • associated with cognitive, constructivist, information-processing theory • learning is cognitive growth, formation of conceptual structures • IN the head

  12. Situative • example: Dewey, Vygotsky • Pragmatic/Marxist (and much else…) • Associated with pragmatism, situative, socio-cultural, socio-historical, cultural-historical, distributed cognition, situated cognition, legitimate peripheral participation, etc… • learning is enculturating, expanding possibilities for perception and action • OUT of and IN the head • Culture • Distributed cognitions • Internalization

  13. Now, back to the beginning… • Looking again at my definition of “learning” • My definition of learning is Cognitive!

  14. Which one do you Agree with??

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