The Acquisition and Retention of Knowledge: A Cognitive View

ISBN-13: 9789048155361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 212 str.

D. P. Ausubel

Opis

In 1963 an initial attempt was made in my The Psychology of Meaningful Verbal Learning to present a cognitive theory of meaningful as opposed to rote verbal learning. It was based on the proposition that the acquisition and retention of knowl edge (particularly of verbal knowledge as, for example, in school, or subject-matter learning) is the product of an active, integrative, interactional process between instructional material (subject matter) and relevant ideas in the leamer's cognitive structure to which the new ideas are relatable in particular ways. This book is a full-scale revision of my 1963 monograph, The Psychology of Meaningful Verbal Learning, in the sense that it addresses the major aforementioned and hitherto unmet goals by providing for an expansion, clarification, differentiation, and sharper focusing of the principal psychological variables and processes involved in meaningful learning and retention, i.e., for their interrelationships and interactions leading to the generation of new meanings in the individual learner. The preparation of this new monograph was largely necessitated by the virtual collapse of the neobe havioristic theoretical orientation to learning during the previous forty years; and by the meteoric rise in the seventies and beyond of constructivist approaches to learning theory."

Spis treści

Preface. 1. Preview of Assimilation Theory of Meaningful Learning and Retention. 2. Scope and Objectives. 3. Preview of Basic Concepts of Meaningful Reception Learning and Retention. 4. The Nature of Meaning and Meaningful Learning. 5. Assimilation Theory in Meaningful Learning and Retention Processes. 6. The Effects of Cognitive Structure Variables on the Acquisition, Retention, and Transferability of Knowledge. 7. Practice and Motivational Factors in Meaningful Learning and Retention.