School of Thought

Student learning can be divided into three different groups, which are COGNITIVE, HUMANISTIC and BEHAVIORAL.

The Cognitive School of Thought 

The first school of thought about learning that I am going to review about is 'COGNITIVE'. The cognitive school of thought is to study how people think, with only the name 'COGNITIVE' we know that it is more related to our brain. Scientists have contributed two important ways to help us how to understand people learning and remembering which is information processing and meaningful learning.

Information processing is the study of how we take information into our memory, store it and how we use it when it is needed. It is basically about how we take in information and how to make the information which is stored to be remembered till lifetime. For example, how  to  transfer short-term memory to long-term memory and how it processes.

Meaningful learning is where scientists do research to find out how information can be made more meaningful so it can be understood and used better. Scientists also have come up with few approaches which includes how to prepare student for learning, present information clearly and logically, connect new information with what learners already know and etc... However, the most important part is teachers should engage and support learner in every way possible.

The Humanistic School of Thought

The second school of thought about learning is HUMANISTIC, which is mostly same as social psychology. Humanistic education focus on the social and emotional learning of student. Humanistic approach also recognize the importance of cognitive learning, it also feels that school focus on gathered information too much and lesser in helping students to learn to become a psychologically healthy person.

Humanistic school holds few core beliefs which is have self-confidence can result in positive personal development and also have high chances to achieve in academic. Another belief is that the school should be made to fit the school rather than the child made to fit the school.

The Behavioral School of Thought

The third school of thought about learning is BEHAVIORISM. Behaviorism is a learning process of reacting to external stimuli. Behavior can also be explained without considering mental states or consciousness. In behaviorism punishment, both positive and negative, decreases the possibility of an event happening again.

There are some strength and weakness that I personally feel in the school of behavioral school of thought. The strength is the amount of evidence that can be collected is abundant through observing people's behavior. The weakness is that not everything can e observed or studied in this manner and also because conditioning was learned from studying animals and humans are more complex compared to animals.