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Hello everyone, today we are back again with a review related to education. On this occasion I will review one of the learning theories put forward by a child psychiatrist named David Paul Ausubel. This learning theory is called ausubel learning theory. Please see my explanation below.
Getting to know David Paul Ausubel.
As I briefly reviewed above, Ausubel's learning theory is the result of the thoughts of a child psychiatrist named David Paul Ausubel. He is an academic who is engaged in educational psychology, drug addiction and forensic psychiatry. He had a great influence in psychiatric education and had extensive scholarly work.
Paul David Ausubel - source
David Paul Ausubel was born in 1918 in Brooklyn, New York. His educational journey at the University of Pennsylvania, and a ph.D in developmental psychology at the University of Coumbia.
Understanding ausubel learning theory.
Ausubel learning theory is one of the educational theories that studies how individuals understand a variety of actions in schools, and also how to understand the material, be it verbal or textual material in schools and other educational institutions.
David Paul Ausbel assumes that learning is a process of representation, superordinate and also the combination that occurs in the process of receiving information. According to him, the main process in learning occurs where new material must be relevant to ideas in existing cognitive structures based on nonverbal substances.
There are two learning dimensions classified by ausubel:
The first dimension is the learning process related to how to convey lesson material or information which can be communicated to students in two forms, namely the form of acceptance or discovery learning.
While the second dimension is related to the way in which students can relate the information they get to the existing cognitive structure. Ausubel not only divides the learning process on two dimensions, he also proposes the types of learning in Asubel's learning theory.
According to him, there are four types of learning, among others. Learn with meaningful discoveries, Learn with meaningless discoveries, Learn to accept (expository) meaningless, and the fourth is Learn to accept (expository) meaning.