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Learning is one of main ways that we change minds. By definition, learning is changing your mind.

• Learning Stage Theories: Theories about how we develop through distinct stages.
  • Erikson's Developmental Stage Theory: learning self-esteem and trust.
  • Fowler's Faith Stage Theory: of different levels of religious belief.
  • Freud's Psychosexual Stage Theory: sex images in early life.
  • Piaget's Stage Theory: of a child's thinking, from 0 to 15.
  • Kohlberg's Stage Theory: of how morals and values develop.
  • The Transtheoretical Model of Change: Stages in changing oneself.
  • Values development: Massey's three periods of child development.
• Active Learning: Learning by doing works best.
• Adaptation: Becoming used to things.
• ARCS Motivation Model: Motivation in instructional design.
• Bloom's Taxonomy: Question levels in educational assessment.
• Conscious and Competence: A cycle of learning.
• Four Knowledge Capability Levels: Tell, do, teach, innovate.
• Graves' Levels: How people go through stages of development.
• Kolb's Learning Styles: Four different styles in this common model.
• Learning Channel Preferences: We focus learning on preferred senses.
• Set Induction: Preparing for the lesson.
• Six Learning Styles: Easy ways we learn.
• Social Learning Theory: Learning by watching and being watched by others.
• Surprise and Learning: How surprise leads to learning.
• The Learning Cycle: Applying Kolb in a cyclic way.
• The Knowledge Trap: Knowers don't understand not knowing.
• The Ignorance Trap: Not knowing what you don't know.

So what?

So understand how people learn and teach them by the ways they prefer - not how you prefer to teach (which is probably also your preferred learning style).

See also

Theories about belief, Meaning, Memory, Memory methods, Inferring

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