"may offer a more flexible conception of knowledge for the information age: the rhizome. A rhizomatic plant has no center and no defined boundary; rather, it is made up of a number of semi-independent nodes, each of which is capable of growing and spreading on its own, bounded only by the limits of its habitat (Cormier 2008). "
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Dewey
Learning by Doing
Learning occurs through experience.
Erikson
Socioemotional Development
Erikson's "Eight Stages of Man" describes a series of
crises individuals pass through at different ages. The stages
begin with "trust versus mistrust" in infancy and
continue through a series of paired outcomes for each age through
older adulthood.
Kohlberg
Stages of Moral Development
Pre-Conventional - based on self-centered interests
Conventional - based on conformity to local expectations
Post-Conventional - based on higher principles
Piaget
Genetic Epistemology
Developmental stages of child development:
0-2 years: "sensorimotor" - motor development
3-7 years: "preoperation" - intuitive
8-11 years: "concrete operational" - logical, but non-abstract
12-15 years: "formal operations" - abstract thinking
Skinner
Operant Conditioning
(Behaviorism)
Learning is the result of changes in behavior. As
stimulus-response cycles are reinforced, individuals are
"conditioned" to respond. Distinguished from
Connectionism because individuals can initiate responses, not
merely respond to stimuli.