Behaviourism is a theory of animal and human learning that focuses upon the behaviour of the learner and the change in behaviour that occurs when learning takes place. Learning in the context of behaviourism can be defi ned as the acquisition of a new behaviour or the modifi cation of behaviour as a result of teaching, training or tutoring. Learning is demonstrated by the behaviour of the learner in their actions or reactions to further stimulus.
Behaviourism has been a strong force in education from the early twentieth century through until the mid-1970s when the infl uence of constructivism and the social constructivist explanation of learning became vogue. Behaviourism remains an important focus of research, theory of learning, underpinning of pedagogy and the basis of classroom strategies.
This book will place current practice and innovative ideas in the light of the behaviourist view of learning and show how the principles derived through the work of Ebbinghaus, Pavlov, Watson, Thorndike, Skinner and others remains an important infl uence in current teaching. This account of behaviourism is being made in the twenty-fi rst century and can refl ect upon the work taking place some 100 years previously. The importance and relevance of the work of those early educational psychologists can be seen in current and innovative practice in today’s schools
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