Analyzing Learning Theories in Health and Social Care Settings

This report delves into the intricacies of learning within the health and social care sector, examining various learning theories and their practical applications. It begins by introducing the importance of understanding learning processes and the role of social and health workers in fostering a positive workplace environment. The report explores Bloom's Taxonomy, detailing its cognitive, emotional, and psychomotor domains, and discusses how different learning theories, including behaviorism, constructivism, and cognitivism, contribute to the development of knowledge and skills. A case study utilizes Kolb's Learning Cycle to analyze a care provider's learning journey, illustrating the stages of concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation. The report further investigates learning styles, factors influencing effective learning, and strategies for assessing and delivering learning in the workplace. It also addresses barriers to learning, methods for addressing learning needs, and approaches to supporting individual learning needs within the context of a care home. The report concludes by summarizing key findings and implications for healthcare education and practice.

Understanding the Learning
Process

Table of Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................1
INTORDUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Utilization of Bloom’s Taxonomy of learning to explain different domains of learning
apply in health and social care.....................................................................................................3
1.3 Theories of learning relate to the development of knowledge and skills in health and social
care...............................................................................................................................................4
TASK 2: CASE STUDY.................................................................................................................4
1.2 Stage of Kolb’s Learning Cycle at which Elma started her learning....................................4
M1................................................................................................................................................6
TASK 3..............................................................................................................................7
2.1 Concept of learning styles.....................................................................................................7
2.2 Different factors which influences effective learning development......................................7
2.3 Utilization of learning test to assess for own preferred learning style..................................8
2.4 Various influences affects own learning in relation to learning theory.................................9
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
3.1 Factors which need to consider in workplace learning plan..................................................9
3.2 Teaching strategies to support learning in workplace.........................................................10
3.3 Suggest strategy for delivering and assessing learning in health and social care workplace
...................................................................................................................................................11
4.1 Barriers to learning by staff and services users in care home..............................................11
4.2 Different methods that utilization of learning needs of staff or services users...................12
4.3 Individual learning needs and evaluate approaches use to support.....................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REEFRENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTORDUCTION
Learning is a procedure for acquiring the new things, modifying the existing, behaviours,
knowledge and skills to learn. It is considered as essential to understand the learning procedure
which is arguably one the most powerful theory for inspiring & facilitating the groups,
individuals and also the organizational development and learning process. It has been taught by
any of person to learn anything. It engages people, teach them and also motivate them to reach at
the optimal levels and it has been understood that the process of learning is general, responding
to any of one and understand the emotion & cognitive profiles and also it selects so many
instructional strategies and tactics which are effective for diversifying the learners (Reichstein
and et.al., 2019). Learning needs includes social and health workers make a positive environment
at workplace and also motivate them for working with the organisation.
This report will study investigation of the learning theories and there are so many things
which learner exploring for developing their skills and knowledge and also understanding the
acquisition of the knowledge. Furthermore, it will examine the there are so many ways to learn
and it supports the social and health care on workplace and also providing support to give care to
workers. It will study the so many theories of learning and also the impact of the learning styles
on learning by individuals. More, it will describe the strategies for assessing and delivering
learning in the social and health care workplace and also it supports the individual with learning
needs to give clarity to the social & health care employees (Longworth, 2019).
TASK 1
1.1 Utilization of Bloom’s Taxonomy of learning
Bloom’s Taxonomy is important for lesson highlight of the fact which diverse phases to
help the health and social care shift stand by applying learning processes that led towards
additional confounding measuring and creating (Rämgård, Forsgren and Avery, 2017). Bloom
along with other mentors damaged to manage educational aims and goals that categorise into
three kinds of learning or domains. These kinds are categorized to necessitate individuals in
using sets of psychological managing to achieve expressed outcome inside learning conditions.
 Cognitive Domain: It is mainly directed towards the association. This is divided into
three handy and coaching levels such as element, perceive and appliance. The reality
degree comprises of character and run down. The wide-ranging degree comprise of three
which are depict, assess and investigate mutually. The average verb involves clarify,

implement and research. This domain can convey in kind of lecture, presentations and
assessment can be objectives and individual.
 Emotional Domain: This is in relation to the behavioural aspects and has been marked
as sincerity. All the three phases are integration, mindless and qualification. The verbs
that are used for emotional area are presentation, display and recognize that are applied
for the most portions controlled (Nelson and Staggers, 2016). The original two steps are
behavioural and require the learner to measures and incorporate. The content of
emotional can typically involve debates. The trying and measurements in original two
steps can be cognitive though the third phase can oblige an emotional checking list.
 Psychomotor Domain: This kind of domain which has directed towards abilities of
individual. There are three viable levels of education and consists of impression exercise
and partiality. In the leading step of psychomotor domain covers release of the domain
under discussion, second step can be perception through educator and least step learner
can bring together the knowhow.
1.3 Theories of learning in regard to knowledge development and skills in health sector
These are referred as the planned sets of principles examining ways of individual acquire,
retain and recall understand. An individual can better knowledge about ways of learning
occurred through studying and understanding the various learning theories. The principles of the
theories can be utilized as guidelines to aid chose instructional tools, methods and approaches
which encourage learning to individual. There are mainly three learning theories which involve
behaviourism, constructivism and cognitivism.
TASK 2: CASE STUDY
1.2 Stage of Kolb’s Learning Cycle at which Elma started her learning
Learning of care providers in health and social care can be reflected with the help of
Kolb’s learning cycle as it encourages level of leaning with concrete experience of individual on
the basis of reflective observation is done. Reflective observation assists in deriving on
experience and improvement which can be made to manage effective communication in health
and social care services (Sudria and et.al., 2018). Another step of learning cycle supports abstract
conceptualization where health care worker can conclude their experience and learning from
particular case like Elma who initiated conversation with 90-year-old deaf patient Mr Smith in
residential home. Further, there is learning stage where care workers can plan experiment of

learning. This is the stage that reflects individual interest and learning from whole experience. As
per the case study learning of Elma started at the concrete experiment stage where she initiated a
conversation with deaf patient with no hope of him reverting back. To encourage Mr Smith,
Elma spoke loudly with the hope of that patient will revert to her questions.
Subsequent stages of the cycle and act of Elma in each stage with different ways of learning in
health and social care
In accordance with this situation she started that learning that the patient is completely deaf and
can not hear anything. As per this it can be said that it is important for the health care providers
to first learn and understand condition of patient before treating. However, learning and
experience of Elma as per stages of Kolb’s learning cycle is discussed below:
 Concrete experience: This denotes feeling of Elma to initiate conversation with patient
to provide him care as per person centred approach. In this stage she started learning
when Mr Smith did not respond back and in staff room care assistants stated that Mr
Smith is able to lip read. In this stage Elma explored knowledge learning of health and
social care. According to Arid, 2018, knowledge learning in health care organisation is
for the purpose of developing understanding physical and mental condition of patient.
 Reflective observation: This is the stage of experiencing certain situation that is feeling
and watching. It is important for health and social care workers to first feel and watch
patient situation and then plan appropriate approach to care and inclusion. This type of
learning in health care organisation is known as behavioural psychology where aim of
care provider is on alter behaviour to manage patient care. For Example, after
conversation with care assistants Elma realized that she was not sitting in position where
Mr Smith can see her face or read her lips. According to Steven and et.al., (2019),
behaviourism is a systematic approach which helps care providers in under patient
psychology. This learning can only be managed in interactive environment and is most
viable way to improving health outcome. The approach assistant carers in developing
understanding over vulnerabilities of patient which needs to be focused before treatment
planning and inclusion (Nugraha and et.al., 2018).
 Abstract conceptualization: This stage of learning demonstrates thinking and acting on
certain situation. Learning of Elma in this stage started when she sat in front of Mr. Smith
and he started communicating and also was very talkative. This is cognitive type of

learning occur in health social care organisation. Cognitive learning skills are the most
essential aspect for managing appropriate patient care. This encourages therapeutic
relationship among patient and care providers which aim at involving patient in treatment
planning which supports positive health outcome. As per the views of Arid (2018),
cognitive learning type is necessary to be implied by carers’ because the style aims to
deal with overwhelming problems in positive way. In accordance with this care provider
work on patient problem by dividing mental and physical health issues in two different
ways. This helps in gaining patient participation which supports positive health outcome.
For example, lip read session for communication by Elma for Mr Smith was effective as
the patient demonstrated good interaction and Elma had to interrupt for tea break.
 Active Experimentation: This stage of learning is about feeling and doing something.
This stage is about reaction to all processing and learning which presents final outcome
over entire learning experience. Learning of Elma in this stage was depicted when she
interrupted conversation for asking if Mr Smith would like to drink tea. This was the
question when Elma noticed that she needs to pause and ask question only while facing
him. This type of learning in health and social care is known as social psychology which
determines improvement in patient action because of social interactions and social
setting. According to Wallace, (2019), social psychology is an effective study for
managing learning in health and social care setting. The learning helps carers in
understanding how thought, feelings and behaviour of service users influence care
outcome. Social perception or realization of Elma over lip reading ability of Mr. Smith
helped her in concluding her learning that yes regardless of hearing impairment patient is
ready to interact by own lip reading ability. Therefore, it is important for her to face Mr.
Smith while communicating.
M1
Demonstrating different type of learning of health and social with care with the help of
Kolb’s learning cycle helps in presenting learning in different stages. Like the first the person is
able to feel the situation by watching certain scenario (Nugraha and et.al., 2018). Further,
watching assist the individual in understanding way to reach like Elma understood That Mr
Smith was Deaf and therefore she tried to speak loudly if the patient can hear her. However,
when Mr Smith did not responded back and Elma thought she will not be able to communicate

with Patient but when she thought and communicated with care assistants she legalized that yes
was not facing Mr Smith while communicating. Further, thinking and doing helped she in
encouraging interaction which is demonstrates successful learning via Cognitive behavioural
therapy. Hence, at last learning was supported with doing stage where Elma took a pause as she
was aware that she need to be facing while communicating with Mr Smith.
TASK 3
2.1 Concept of learning styles
Learning style as the mixture of trademark, cognitive and emotional and physiological
elements which provides as balanced pointers in terms of the modes learner looks link towards
learning setting (Redmond, 2017). Learning style is those informative situations below that can
understudy are estimated must be taught. Therefore, learning styles are simplified in nature with
low levels of problems through things which learner realizes, yet somewhat the mode in which
they like to be trained. The thought of learning style encloses the friendly unit of composed
materials and what is all accounts a thriving deposit of business exercise (Morgan-Trimmer,
2015). The activities which lay on hand on learning styles thoughts in their expensive logic.
It highlights that can be staggeringly magnanimous, still on should in order to retain
information about the complete amount in context to different plans or kinds of learning styles
which have been planned by the time.
2.2 Different factors which influences effective learning development
The development of learning influences through various factors which are involved such
as:
 Inspirations: This kind of factor helps to student to obtain for future reference. The
educators should to have capability and encourage the studies.
 Background: The ecological elements effect in the learning. The appropriate
environment lays further focus for the learning.
 Culture: In each and every society, there are different forms of social learning concept.
A number of countries are growing and underdeveloped ones. At the point when these
countries learning styles are compared with developed countries the instructive level of
health and social care can be important needs (Jiménez-Zarco and et.al., 2015).
Therefore, the styles of teaching and paths fluctuate beginning with one society then onto

the next. It can be hard to comprehend the non –verbal communications on the grounds
which different societies which have different relating to eye contact, body signs and so
on.
 Time Accessible: The management of the time is important in the learning. The lecture
ought to create the way to end the needs of learner as far as possible. This kind of factor
influences on learner to work in relation to take care of patients or services users in health
and social care.
 Readiness: The educator must ideas relating to every learner, what they are, their
learning and considerable limit that learning concept is suitable for every learner. The
trainers have to conduct every learner’s archive together with their learning requirements.
2.3 Utilization of learning test to assess for own preferred learning style
Learning style is related to the assessment and is based on using several study methods to
establish diverse effectiveness for others (Billett, 2016). It is found that several concepts of
learning styles are explained below:
 Visual Learner: Visual learner learn finest with observing. Realistic shows for instance
graphs, highlight and features which are all useful learning tools for visual learners. An
individual who prejudice toward this form of learning can relatively observe information
showed in visual as compared to in composed structure. They can remember the
information through just looking at it and pay minute deliberation to the body language.
They have preference towards the beauty and looks of product.
 Aural Learner: Sound learner most excellent through listening to information which
also called as aural learner. They have tendency to get an additional management out of
tackles and are great at recalling things they are examined (Megele, 2015). The aural
learners like to listen to the lecturer and earn much from listening as opposed to book
reading. Also, they can grasp much in case anyone reads the data to them or asks them to
read out loud.
 Reading and text Learner: It is also called as perusing and composing learners like to
get information displayed as writing learning resources which are basically content based
are powerfully preferred with these learners. These learners prefer to create notes and
refer to them when required.

 Kinaesthetic Learners: This kind of learner gain knowledge in most appropriate way
through feeling and performing (Adler, Glymour and Fielding, 2016). Active experience
is important to kinaesthetic learners. In case of health and social care employees is the
most effective.
2.4 Various influences affects own learning in relation to learning theory
An alternate area of effect is upper level employees. The top level of employees talks to
the premiums of shareholder of firm. They have the capability to contract, shoot and recompense
senior managers and to provide abnormal state guidance (Doel and Shardlow, 2017). Through
executing these advices, administration can promote or boundary authoritative learning. The
revolution of shareholder enclosure is because of mismanaging of numbers well-known
companies in the 1990s. This revolution in wider movement and effect on companies have
motivated important convert in authoritative learning.
Therefore, the conditions have re-imagined the portion of wider member in number of
companies. There is really barely perceptible comparison between dealing with the company like
BUPA international health and social care as well as aiding ideas for dealing with the firm
(Evans, 2016). The leaders who have gotten to be additional dynamic do not deal with the detail
of daily operation, they push companies to keep up important needs, closely look goals and
managing as well as take more dynamic portion in the management procedure.
TASK 4
3.1 Factors which need to consider in workplace learning plan
There are various factors which need to consider in workplace learning plan that can
utilize by upper level manager to new employees in the health and social care firm like BUPA.
Factors are involved such as:
 Stress management: It is the essential factor which requires considering in the learning
plan at the workplace. Stress is negative word that influences productiveness of single
person. It directly affects productiveness of workers who is working in health and social
care firm like BUPA. Stress on health care professionals can also lead to explode of their
anger on the services users (Weggelaar-Jansen, van Wijngaarden and Slaghuis, 2015).
Supervisor can improve the learning plan on management of stress of employees as well
as patients.

 Time management: It is the essential factor which requires considering in the learning
plan at the workplace. Learning plan for time management also aids an interns or learners
to manage patients of health and care in effective manner. Learner can easily allocate
time to each and every patient through proper time management plan in the BUPA.
 Communication management: It is the essential factor which requires considering in
the learning plan at the workplace (Morgan-Trimmer, 2015). Developing communication
action also aid learner. if learner is being taught mode of communication in the health and
services employees that they can follow plan regularly in the BUPA.
3.2 Teaching strategies to support learning in workplace
Newly medical professionals employed in the health and social care home can face many
difficulties such as attending patients ineffectively. Newly medical professionals also face issues
relating to behaviour of various patients because they cannot attend all services users in the
similar manner (Jiménez-Zarco and et.al., 2015). The top level manager can follow different
teaching strategies to support learning to employees in the job which are followed:
 Training: It is the necessary to give support to the new employees on the job. Top level
manager can give appropriate training to the newly health and social care professionals.
This aids in attending patients effectively. Training to the health care professionals also
assists in dealing with the attitudes of all the patients. It leads to work efficiently with
minimum faults.
 Mentoring: It is the informal transmission of knowledge and thoughts to the member
who are under them. This strategy aids in providing practical understanding to newly
staff of health and social care firm like BUPA.
 Collaborative learning: This strategy refers learning in the team. A unit of all new staff
work together to achieve the objectives of the health care home like BUPA. They are not
the permanent team (Billett, 2016). They just kind for the aim of learning.
 For increasing the learning needs newly employed staff in health and social care. The top
level health care professionals can provide them appropriate feedback relating to
performance of new employees in the health care. Proper response can assures that they
is treated the services users properly. This can also assure that newly employed worker is
enough to utilize their abilities and competencies to manage the patients.

 Also, manager can also ensure that proper planning of newly health and social care
professionals which they can attend that services users
3.3 Suggest strategy for delivering and assessing learning in health and social care workplace
There are some strategies for delivering and assessing learning in health and social care
firm like BUPA. Such as:
 Training: It is necessary to give training on the above plan which also aid in positive
term. Training directs to raise their efficiency of attending the patients. This can aid
company to attain impressive development at minimum wastage (Megele, 2015). Also, it
assists to accomplish the objectives of BUPA in terms of satisfaction of all the patients.
 Seminars: It can assist all the people in the health and social care sector by learning
plan. This strategy gives brief lectures on the subjects. They help the learner to avoid the
stress, it aids company to attain the increase growth and for services users they can assist
in kind of service that doctor provides.
 Discussion: This can assists in reducing the negative view of the learning result. Through
proper discussion learner can get knowledge about the work done and managing patients,
creating health and care reports of all the patients in the firm like BUPA (Adler, Glymour
and Fielding, 2016).
4.1 Barriers to learning by staff and services users
It consists of normal difficulties which learning managers ought to involve while starting
to modification when using the learning methods in maintaining quality. It has been recorded to
make clear time management (Doel and Shardlow, 2017). At certain situations, it has led to
obligation of the combined effects of re-evaluation with applying process and activity to crack
the limitations and execute successful managements. Some are connected in the midst of others,
some are unlinked. Each and every one of wider and needed as well as also be tended. There are
learning barriers by employees and services users in care home like BUPA international health
care.
 Competence: It is critical barrier to learn any form of activities or actions which can
highly influence on the working in the health and social care. Competencies means skills
like communication, technical etc. which are required in taking care of services users in
the health and social care home.

 Inactivity: It is critical barrier to learn any form of activities or actions which can highly
influence on the working in the health and social care.
 Training Outlook: Ineffective training outlook which can highly influence on the
working in the health and social care (Adler, Glymour and Fielding, 2016). Barrier in
training outlooks like lack of proper attention, lack of motivation, lack of clarity etc.
which effect on activities of health and social care.
 Manager Commitment: Appropriate seriousness through managers while giving the
activities and operations to employees in terms of health and social care firm. Therefore,
managers needs to increase own competencies and skills for handling all activities of
health and social care.
4.2 Different methods that utilization of learning needs of staff or services users
There are various methods which utilization of learning needs of staff or services in the
health and social care firm like BUPA.
 Assessment methods: It is the most important method for utilization of learning needs
for services users. They can be capable to access knowledge, abilities and techniques can
be added to learning needs for staff and services uses in the BUPA. This can aid to
effective operations in terms of taking care of the patients (Evans, 2016).
 Existing training: It analyses the learning needs for whole services the administrator can
begin through measuring the active training which is being delivered in health and social
homes like BUPA. This acquires head beginning dependent on the requirements being
satisfied through this training. This can aid to effective operations in terms of taking care
of the patients.
4.3 Individual learning needs and evaluate approaches use to support
Learning needs are differentiated through an official or casual learning needs analysis.
The investigation can enclose the whole company, special gathering of single person. The firm
broad learning need analysis involves conducted collecting of info relating to the current
aptitudes and capabilities in the health and social care industry. Once examined, the data can be
used to create the company broad learning management (Weggelaar-Jansen, van Wijngaarden
and Slaghuis, 2015). Learning need analysis can be accomplished on specific collecting of single
persons , e.g. health sector firms such as BUPA requiring to enter into both global markets can
need identifying the new aptitudes and skills required of their business power. These can be

traditional in capability structure while delicate factors the special activities required for
achievement in the portion of health and social care.
In addition to that, there are developments centres that are secondary compelling for
differentiating learning needs. Properly built and performed, advancement directs provide
through and target identifiable evidence of qualities and development needs which can be used to
survey current aptitude or forthcoming. Most of health and social care firms like BUPA use them
particularly since they are moderately asset-escalated. For example: soaring possible people,
where they are used as leading view of capability administration procedures.
The learning requirement of an individual can be differentiated through continuous
performance management procedure. Manager have the opportunity to different the learning
requirements of single person, they oversees and can use this information to provide
management and guiding in ordinary circumstances (Adler, Glymour and Fielding, 2016).
CONCLUSION
There are so many learning process has been investigated where learners expand their
knowledge and skills. It develops their practical skills, understandings and acquisition of the
knowledge. It is way too understanding things and people. From learning things it will help in
planning about the opportunities in learning and also the factors which has been contributed in
successful delivering the learning at workplace. It is generally a process of acquiring the
knowledge and modifying the existing knowledge.
This report will conclude that Learning process is very much effective for making the
strategies for delivering and assessing the learning process in social and health care. It is very
useful for health and social care workers because it encourages them for working and
understanding the situations.
Further, it will conclude that it will teach them for understanding others emotions and
perspectives rather than neglect it. It also motivates them for work with ethics and rules.
Learning increases their capability of knowledge. It will conclude that understanding the learning
process brings so many changes for the benefits of the organisation and staff as well.
Learning is very important it helps the staff from different theories of learning. This
report will conclude that there are so many styles of learning that helps the staff for
understanding, skills and knowledge and also the theories relate to the development of the skills
and understanding of the social and health care.