Support Active Learning Research

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Within this essay I will show why I think the interactive learning resource we created is so fundamentally linked to the practice of ‘active learning’ and why it is so important to young peoples’ positive educational development. I will also show some of the views of leading experts and theorists as to why they view active learning so importantly, and think about what some of the obstacles may be when trying to implement active learning in the classroom. The topic we were covering in my year 1 class was ‘spring’ and we cover this topic every year with great success and the children always achieve a lot of amazing learning during this period, especially in science. We spoke about what spring meant to them and what they already knew about what happens during this time of the …show more content…

constructivist education.blogspot (2006) This can only be achieved by implementing that learning by doing approach and developing new skills and having the chance to use them and practice therm.
A central component of Piaget's developmental theory of learning and thinking is that both involve the participation of the learner. Knowledge is not merely transmitted verbally but must be constructed and reconstructed by the learner. Piaget asserted that for a child to know and construct knowledge of the world, the child must act on objects and it is this action which provides knowledge of those objects (Sigel, 1977);
The mind organizes reality and acts upon it. The learner must be active; he is not a vessel to be filled with facts. Piaget's approach to learning is a readiness approach. Readiness approaches in developmental psychology emphasize that children cannot learn something until maturation gives them certain prerequisites (Brainerd, 1978). http://gemilita09.blogspot.co.uk/p/montessori-education-theory.html

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