Introduction After few weeks’ lectures in this course, I learnt a lot about the dynamic relationships among the social and cultural contexts in the formal and informal instruction settings. Implications of social and cultural theories on the instructional experience of different learner groups were explored. I realized that social and cultural contexts is an important element that affect a person’s learning process. Previously, I tended to disregard this element because social culture is so close and natural in our life until it can be easily neglected. For instance, in my past 8 years of teaching life, I seldom solved or looked into a pupil’s learning problems through the lens of social cultural. I didn’t bother much what is their family …show more content…
This assertion has influence other learning theorist such as James Wertsch.
James Wertsch’s Social Cultural Theory Wertsch further develops Vygotsky’s idea of internalization by building on Bakhtin’s notions of highlighting inter-mental processes. In his book, Voices of the Mind, he outlined an approach to mental functioning that stress its inherent cultural, historical and institutional context (Wertsch, 1991). The key aspect of this approach is the cultural tools or "mediational means", in particular, language that shape both social and individual processes.
Unit 3: Social Learning Theory
This unit highlighted Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory. We discussed about how social learning theory affects social issues such as smoking and
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We as a teacher and an adult in family, need to pay attention on how we behave in front of the children. They can mimic our good and bad habits without consider the consequences. So, it is crucial for us to set a good example for them so that they can learn the right things instead of the bad one.
Unit 4: Social Context for Learning
In this unit, we extended out view that learning is a social process and that learning does not occur only in an individual’s mind. We learnt about various social contexts for learning, for example the relations between newcomers and old timers.
Lave and Wenger’s Theory of Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LPP) indicates how newcomers become experienced members and gradually become old timers of a community of practice or collaborative project (Lave & Wenger, 1991). Correspond to LPP, newcomers become members of a community initially by involving in low risk and simple tasks. Eventually, the novices become acquainted with the tasks, vocabulary, and organizing principles of the community through peripheral activities. Membership in a community practice is mediated by participation of newcomers, either physically or socially. It is easier for novices to understand the broader context by directly observe the practices of
John Wayne Gacy was a U.S. serial killer who was found guilty of killing 33 boys and young men (McCormick, 1998). Gacy was born on March 17, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois (Sullivan, 2013). John Wayne Gacy had two sisters, Joanne and Karen and had a difficult relationship with his father. His father was an auto repair machanic and World War I veteran (Jones, 2012). Whenever his father came home from work, he would go to the basement and drink. His father was an alcoholic and used physical punishment on all of his children (Jones, 2012). He would even beat the children with a razor strap if they misbehaved (Sullivan, 2013). Gacy’s mother tried her best to protect the children, but Gacy’s father physically assaulted her as well (Jones, 2012). Additionally,
Social cognitive theory of learning is a theoretical perspective that focuses on learning by observing others and eventually assuming control over one’s own behavior (Ormrod, 2011, p.323). Social cognitive theory is a perspective that helps us understand about learning by observing other people doing the same thing. This theory is a blend of behaviorism and cognitive psychology (Ormrod, 2011). Behaviorism theory relates to learning as a stimulus- response relationship and suggests that learning involves a behavior change whereas according to social cognitive theory learning is an internal process that may or may not lead to a behavior change. For example one might attempt to ride a bicycle as soon as they learn to ride the bicycle but learning how to put air in the bike may not be needed until the bicycle need air.
Students in American public schools represent an increasingly diverse population in terms of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and other characterizations. Students come from a variety of cultures, backgrounds, and home environments. More specifically, culture includes shared traditions, symbols, language, behaviors, and what is considered normal and abnormal for a group of people. Vygotsky (1978) explained that students come to school with experiences that impact how they assimilate new information. Humans learn through interaction with others and interpretation of information is based upon past experiences and current perceptions. Based on this thinking, educators must develop cultural competence
With a sociological approach for education, a teacher is able maintain a holistic view of their role as a teacher and the connections between the classroom and their participants. This theory can be learned, then similar to the learning of morals, cannot be unlearned. For the teacher’s lens, sociology acts the zoom mechanism for macro to micro perspectives of the influences on the classroom. While applying this theory teacher are able to adjust and adapt culturally responsive teaching with an increased understanding of their teacher identity, a more informed understanding of their community, and a critical perspective of curriculum. The concepts of sociology can be applied with the sociological imagination to teacher identity and historical
Many theories have been thought of over the years to attempt to explain why people behave the way they do. Many questions were brought up when thinking about that and the social learning theory is a popular theory in explaining this. Nobody really thought of the social learning theory too much until Albert Bandura wrote his idea of it. He actually wrote a book called “Social Learning Theory.” In this book, he states that behavior is learned from the environment through the process of observational learning(Saul McLeod).
Albert Henry Desalvo was born on September 3, 1931 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, to Frank Desalvo and Charlotte. Desalvo was the third of six children. Desalvo father was an aggressive, violent, alcoholic fisherman from Newfoundland, Canada. Desalvo father would brutally beat up his wife and children with fists, belts, and pipes. When Charlotte was out of the house, Desalvo father brought prostitutes home and had sexual intercourse with them in front of the children. He was arrested repeatedly for refusing to support his wife and children. At a young age, Desalvo father taught Albert how to shoplift and encouraged him to steal.
To start with, culturally responsive teaching practices recognize the validity of the cultural custom contained by several ethnic groups. In other words, it considers whether different approaches of learning are necessary and worthy in the formal learning. Furthermore, culturally responsive teaching practices are fundamental because they create links between school experience and home and between lived social cultural realities and academic abstraction (Gay, 2000).
There are many cultural and social factors to an ELL student. The “notion of culture as a dynamic entity--not simply a collection of foods, clothes, and holidays, but a way of using social, physical, spiritual, and economic resources to make one's way in the world” (Leighton, 1995, pg.1). When an educator takes the time to get to know the families the students will learn more efficiently. The only problem with that is the educators “schedules are already full, teachers resist devoting that much time and effort to an activity that the most "efficient" of them can imagine replacing with a short questionnaire sent home at the beginning of the year” (National, 1994, pg. 4). With educators too busy to take the extra time to get to know the students’ families these students will not learn through their background knowledge.
“If you look back to the original social learning theory, you find it is largely about people learning from each other, and it shows how technology is not part of the equation. Social learning theory has four elements,
Psychology is one of the newest sciences. Because it is the science of the mind and behavior, it is also less concrete than some of the other sciences. Over the years, social scientists have developed theories or perspectives based off of their observations, research, and the perspectives of other scientists. Although there is some overlap, each of the major perspectives of psychology is unique. As a result, they each have strengths and weaknesses and explain psychology in a different way. One theory, the sociocultural perspective, is exactly what its name suggests. It’s the idea that the society and groups that an individual belongs to are what influences development, thoughts, and behavior. The sociocultural perspective was pioneered by a Russian psychologist, Lev Vygotsky, in the 1920’s (John-Steiner, 1998). Vygotsky stressed the idea that children learn through what he called guided participation (Sigelman, 2009). His theory was that children develop through interactions with parents, teachers, and other knowledgeable members of the culture and are given tools to adopt the group’s way of thinking.
Theories play a vital part in our life. Thus, the Social Learning Theory and Social Cognitive Theory has a significant impact on our lives. Both of these theories emphasis on the developmental aspect of life. Social learning theory focuses on learning come from observation. Whereas, Social Cognitive Theory is more comprehensive and emphasizes on the process of triangulate reciprocal determinism: behavior, personal factors and environment. Additionally, "self-efficacy" is the core factor precise in the triangulate mechanism. These theories has implication in current life scenarios. A basic principle of Social Learning Theory is that people learn not only through their own experiences, but also by observing the actions of others
The Social Learning Theory (SLT) states that people learn by observation, modeling and motivation by positive reinforcement. Albert Bandura believed that observational learning could be used to explain a broad range of behaviors and that modeling was important to behavior. He observed that children would imitate people even if reinforcements were not immediate. In 1977, Bandura conceived the concept of self-efficacy which is the foundation of the Social Cognitive Theory. Self-efficacy is one’s confidence in completing a task or goal. An individual’s actions are influenced by actions that are observed in others and that individual has control of his/her own life.
The following provided example will be used to analyse Banduras’ Social Learning Theory (1963) and how it relates to my personal learning and development of understanding skills in health and social care.
Witsel (2003) from the Southern Cross University advanced that teaching at tertiary or any level was rather uncomfortable even when the socioeconomic and cultural background of students are compatible with that of their teachers. Consequently, teachers have the added responsibility of motivating, assessing, negotiating, admonishing as well as teaching. The expert contends that these tasks force teachers to go beyond the call of duty by placing themselves in active relationships with students and the professional responsibilities they execute on a daily basis. Therefore, it becomes complicated when students appear in a classroom with various linguistic backgrounds, learning styles and expectations based on their socioeconomic and cultural development (Witsel, 2003).
Behavior and social learning are two theories that are inherently intertwined. Behavior to some extent is taught for social reasons, and social learning can very much shape and create behaviors. While behavior is something intentionally taught, social learning can teach and reinforce many unintentional behaviors, such as dishonesty or aggression. In order to adequately discuss these two interrelated topics, theory exploration is in order.