My Personal Perspective of Learning: Understanding the Learning Process

This essay discusses personal learning styles, classroom learning, types of learning, and the importance of understanding the learning process. It also includes a bibliography of relevant research.

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For so long the process of learning has been a topic of concern and so many researchers
been able to come up with theories and concepts to shade more insight on this topic. Some of the
common theories are the zone of proximal development theory and the contingent teaching
theory (Broza & Kolikant, 2015).This essay is a discussion of how I personally learn best, how
pupils learn best in your own classroom, the different kinds of learning and the importance of
studying the learning process. The learning process should be understood to help teachers come
up with the best tools to help children in learning and development.
I personally learn best when I am interacting with others. Seeing what my colleagues are
doing stimulates my creative thinking and I find myself doing even better than them and come up
with new ways of tackling a task. On certain practical topics, I learn fast from demonstrations
from the teacher. Pupils learn best when the students take responsibility for their own learning
and engage actively in interactive learning activities (Hurst, 2017). Learning occurs best if the
classroom environment creates a positive atmosphere where every student want to learn and they
are not afraid to make mistakes.
There are various kinds of learning namely visual, aural, verbal, physical, logical, social
and solitary. Visual learning is where images and pictures are preferred for while in aural sound
is preferred. Verbal learning involves using words and speech while the physical learning is
where the body such as the hand is used for learning. Logical learning involves reasoning and
using logic (Eun, 2017). Social learning is where an individual prefers to learn in groups and
solitary learning is the opposite, that is one learns alone. Different people have different learning
styles and understanding them will help in how a teacher can help individual children.

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If learning is what we value then it is obviously important to understand the learning
process. IT is important to study the process of learning because it gives us an understanding of
how best we people learn. Studying the learning process we come across concepts that explain
how learning occurs in children and even adults. From the contingent theory, we learn that children
have to apply what they previously learnt for learning to take place. The study in the process of
learning, from the ZPD concept, we learn that children have a potential of doing some things
independently and for other tasks, they require assistance (Danish et al, 2017). It is therefore
important to study and understand the learning process.
Bibliography
Broza, O., & Kolikant, Y. B. D. (2015). Contingent teaching to low-achieving students in
mathematics: Challenges and potential for scaffolding meaningful learning. ZDM, 47(7), 1093-
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Danish, J., Saleh, A., Andrade, A., & Bryan, B. (2017). Observing complex systems thinking in
the zone of proximal development. Instructional Science, 45(1), 5-24.
Eun, B. (2017). The zone of proximal development as an overarching concept: A framework for
synthesizing Vygotsky’s theories. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1-13.
Hurst, C. (2017). Provoking contingent moments: Knowledge for ‘powerful teaching’at the horizon.
Educational Research, 59(1), 107-123.