Authors: Jean Piaget, Lev
Vigotsky, Jerome Bruner,
Ausubel
Based on
promoting
mental
processing. They
accentuate
more complex
cognitive
processes such
as thinking,
problem solving,
language,
conceptualization
and
information
processing
Piaget stages: 1) Training (specific operations)
2) Development (Formal operations)
Bruner: Intellectual development is characterized by
increasing independence from external stimuli
Ausubel: O.L must be meaningful to the employee.
Constructivism
Emphasize the
interaction
between the
mind and the real
world.
Relation with
Organizational Learning
Gardner: Employees need to achieve the
greatest possible knowledge
Freinet: Promotes free expression, cooperation and
participation through life processes
Piaget: Build personal interactions of the world and base on
individual experiences and interactions.
SocIal learning
Holds that portions of
an individual's
knowledge acquisition
can be directly to
observing other within
the context of social
interactions, experiences
and outside media
influences.
Examples: work in team, shared vision.
Author: Albert
Bandura
Bobo doll experiment
Behaviorism
Is a worldview that
operates on a principle
of "Stimulus-response.
All behavior caused by
external stimuli
(operant conditioning).
All behevior can be
explained without the
need to consider
internal mental states
or consciousness
Authors: Watson, Pavlov, Skinner,.
Classical conditioning (Pavlov): Process of reflex
learning through which an unconditioned stimulus
which produces an unconditioned response is
presented together with a conditioned stimulus.
Operant conditioning: If, when an organism emits a
behaviour (does something), the consequences of that
behaviour are reinforcing, it is more likely to emit (do)
it again. What counts as reinforcement, of course, is
based on the evidence of the repeated behaviour, which
makes the whole argument rather circular.