How To Be an Active Leaner in a Group Environment

This essay aims to highlight the various ways in which to be an active learner in a group environment, I will be doing this by using different theories and relevant experiences of both myself and others. It will specifically focus on the Bandura’s social learning theory and situated learning by Lave and Wenger. The essay itself will consist firstly of a Literature review where I will be using third party sources for support, next there will also be a critical analysis section which will further develop my ideas and allow me to share my own experiences. Lastly there will be a conclusion which will hopefully draw together the ideas that have been discussed and summarise the critical analysis section. It is so important for us to understand how to learn and different types of learning as learning is an active and dynamic concept which is a fundamental feature of any organisation.

Literature Review

There have been many published theories on the topic of active learning or learning via participation that are relevant to this essay topic but I will be focusing on only a couple.

The first theory that’s I will be referring in my critical analysis is Albert Banduras (Bandura, 1997) social learning theory that states that behaviour is learned from the environment through the process of observational learning. The most famous example of this being the bobo doll experiment where two different young children where shown two different videos, one showed an adult playing nicely with the bobo doll ,one showing the adult attacking the doll with violent behaviour. When the children were then place in a room with the doll they found that the child imitated the behaviours they were shown in the videos. Which indicated the children learn via activ...

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