My Learning Paradigm

When I first walked into my education class of Perspectives of Learning I did not know what I was about to learn or do. But now I can tell you that I was taught to see learning in many different ways and in this class I can talk about four different paradigm 's from a collection of many others. I can also talk about different people who have shaped the world of education and those who talked about important situations. On top of all this learning I was reading a common book of Born on a Blue Day which showed me a different way of learning that I have never heard about and can see that I can relate to the author. With this information I can talk about a learning theory that I thought was important and I can relate too. I can talk about the different …show more content…
The first one that we talked was Behaviorism in one of our first reading of Educational Psychology says “is the view that behavior should be explained by observable experiences, not by mental processes”(Santrock p.218). Then we talked about Cognitivism during the next week and in class we talk about the differences and similarities between them. We saw that Cognitivism is a reaction to Behaviorism it is using mental processes and one big difference is that Cognitivist use models in the classroom so students will look up to them and want to act like them. When we started talking about Humanism I did not understand the paradigm at all even when I did read the article that was assigned for homework and talked about it in class. I still did not understand until Hannah Miller had to example it in a way that I could understand and also seeing Maslow 's Hierarchy of Needs in my own eyes got me to understand it. Now I can tell you that Humanism is learning relation to the human experience. The final paradigm we learned was Constructivism which is “ Consensually hold that knowledge is not manically acquired, but actively constructed within the constraints and offering of the learning environment” (Matthews & Hua Liu p.387). The one paradigm that I can relate the best with is Cognitivism because of the use of problem solving, mental processes, and …show more content…
I need to look back in my past and see different stories that shows the way I learn. It was a difficult thing to do but I found it interesting because I now know what paradigm I fit in right now and the way Iearn. Like I stated before, I fit in cognitivism because of using problem solving, mental processes, remember and others. Sometimes I will lack the remember part but I can use other concepts to help me in my