Salomon and Perkins(1998) suggested that the concept of social learning could have 6 implications:1)active social mediation, or how individual learning is transformed by the external agent; 2)paricipatory knowledge construction, that is learners make sense of activities/material by dynamic participation and interaction in particular situation; 3)mediation by cultural scaffolding; surrounds (artifacts, symbols, tools,etc.) offering conditions of learning. 4)social entity, or learning as a collective agency; 5)learning to be a social learner; and 6) the learning of social content.
Are we born social or solo learners? When is it pure individual or pure social learning? I suppose we cannot simply draw a line as they are interwoven and coexisting most of the time. In past learners were viewed more like individuals and learning more like isolated effort, but theories based on the perspective couldn't explain the complextity of learning. Socio-cultural view of learning seems to fill the blanks in some ways.
Monday, February 2, 2009
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