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    David Ausubel developed the meaningful learning theory which posits that meaningful learning occurs when new information is related to an individual's existing cognitive structure or prior knowledge. There are four processes of meaningful learning: derivative subsumption, correlative subsumption, superordinate learning, and combinatorial learning. According to Ausubel, instruction should present the most general ideas first and progressively differentiate concepts, integrate new and old ideas, and use advance organizers to facilitate linking new information to existing knowledge structures. The most important factor for learning is the learner's prior knowledge.

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    David Ausubel developed the meaningful learning theory which posits that meaningful learning occurs when new information is related to an individual's existing cognitive structure or prior knowledge. There are four processes of meaningful learning: derivative subsumption, correlative subsumption, superordinate learning, and combinatorial learning. According to Ausubel, instruction should present the most general ideas first and progressively differentiate concepts, integrate new and old ideas, and use advance organizers to facilitate linking new information to existing knowledge structures. The most important factor for learning is the learner's prior knowledge.

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    David Ausubel developed the meaningful learning theory which posits that meaningful learning occurs when new information is related to an individual's existing cognitive structure or prior knowledge. There are four processes of meaningful learning: derivative subsumption, correlative subsumption, superordinate learning, and combinatorial learning. According to Ausubel, instruction should present the most general ideas first and progressively differentiate concepts, integrate new and old ideas, and use advance organizers to facilitate linking new information to existing knowledge structures. The most important factor for learning is the learner's prior knowledge.

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    David Ausubel

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    Viviana P. Sanchez
    David Ausubel developed the meaningful learning theory which posits that meaningful learning occurs when new information is related to an individual's existing cognitive structure or prior knowledge. There are four processes of meaningful learning: derivative subsumption, correlative subsumption, superordinate learning, and combinatorial learning. According to Ausubel, instruction should present the most general ideas first and progressively differentiate concepts, integrate new and old ideas, and use advance organizers to facilitate linking new information to existing knowledge structures. The most important factor for learning is the learner's prior knowledge.

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    National Autonomous University of Honduras Faculty of Humanities and Art School of Foreign Languages and Cultures Foreign Languages

    Career

    Psychopedagogy Msc. Rosa Oneyda Palacios Gmez


    Group 16
    Members

    Bessy Mendoza Any Herrera Indira Torres

    David Ausubel
    Meaningful Learning Theory

    Biography

    Born: October 25, 1918 Died: July 9, 2008 Grew up in Brooklyn, New York

    He graduated from medical school at Middlesex University. Later he earned a Ph.D in Developmental Psychology at Columbia University. He was influenced by the work of Piaget.

    In 1973, Ausubel retired from academic life and devoted himself to his psychiatric practice. In 1976, he received the Thorndike Award from the American Psychological Association for "Distinguished Psychological Contributions to Education".

    Meaningful Learning Theory

    Concerned with how students learn large amounts of meaningful material from verbal/textual presentations in a learning activities. Meaningful learning results when new information is acquired by linking the new information in the learners own cognitive structure

    Learning is based on the representational, superordinate and combinatorial processes that occur during the reception of information. A primary process in learning is subsumption in which new material is related to relevant ideas in the existing cognitive structure on a nonverbatim basis (previous knowledge)

    The processes of meaningful learning:

    Ausubel proposed four processes by which meaningful learning occur:


    Derivative Subsumption Correlative Subsumption Superordinate Learning Combinatorial Learning

    Meaningful Learning Theory


    Derivative Subsumption Describes the situation in which the new information pupils learn is an instance or example of a concept that pupils have already learned. Correlative Subsumption More valuable learning than that of derivative subsumption, since it enriches the higher-level concept.

    Meaningful Learning Theory


    Superordinate Learning In this case, you already knew a lot of examples of the concept, but you did not know the concept until it was taught to pupils Combinatorial Learning It describes a process by which the new idea is derived from another idea that is comes from his previous knowledge (in a different, but related, branch) Students could think of this as learning by analogy

    Principles of Ausubels Meaningful Reception Learning Theory


    Within a classroom setting include: The most general ideas of a subject should be presented first and then progressively differentiated in terms of detail and specificity. Instructional materials should attempt to integrate new material with previously presented information through comparisons and cross-referencing of new and old ideas.

    Principles of Ausubels Meaningful Reception Learning Theory

    Instructors should incorporate advance organizers when teaching a new concept. Instructors should use a number of examples and focus on both similarities and differences. Classroom application of Ausubel's theory should discourage rote learning of materials that can be learned more meaningfully. The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows.

    Summary

    For Ausubel, meaningful learning is a process that related new information relevant to the concepts contained in a persons cognitive structure. In order to be meaningful to students learning, then learning should be linked and relevant to students cognitive structures. Relevance to students cognitive structures can happen when we pay attention to early knowledge of the concepts that preceded the concept to be learned.

    Summary

    It is important for students to construct knowledge through learning. The essential theory of meaningful learning is a teaching which Ausubel enables students can associate the beginning of knowledge with new knowledge that will learn and how teachers can facilitate learning by preparing the facility as a presentation of the subject matter which allows students to build knowledge in discovery learning activities.

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