Learning About Learning

In the one hundred and seventy years since Horace Mann and his followers began to systematize and regulate the growing practice of public education, that practice has gone through distinctly different phases, guided by the philosophies of the time.

I invite you to read through a detailed description of successive educational philosophies and their key characteristics.

- Traditionalists: Focus on Presentation of Facts and Techniques
- Progressivists: Focusing on Exploration of Learning
- Behaviorists: Focus on Conditioning of the Learner
- Systems Thinking: Focus on Better Presentation and Performance
- Cognitivists: Focus on Understanding Relationships
- OLEs: Focus on Application of Learning through Shared Understanding
- Communities of Practice