Psychological Perspectives on Learning

Meeting with a committee member, we talked about how I need to look at all articles dealing with agency and learning, including all learning theories that talk about agency.    This is a huge body of literature.  I could read for weeks on end and not even touch a percentage of this literature.   So, I also need to come up with some strategies for patterns/topics, ways to situate/scope the literature.

There are four main streams of thought concerning how learning happens (Smith, M. K. (2003) 'Learning theory', the encyclopedia of informal education, www.infed.org/biblio/b-learn.htm, Last update: May 29, 2012):

1. Behaviorist
2. Cognitive
3. Humanistic
4. Social/Situational 

Other Theories of Learning: http://home.sprynet.com/~gkearsley/tip/theories.html