Processes And Strategies In Health Professional Education

Learning Theories and Health Education
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Abstract
Learning theories constitute the fundamental framework that assists in the planning and scheduling of educational systems within a classroom environment. This is a crucial aspect of the technical training for the nursing field. The acquisition and mastery of these theories by the teachers and other trainers can assist them in the dissemination of knowledge and flexibility depending on the situations at hand. Behaviorists are of the notion that learning occurs only when there is a reaction to a given stimuli, that results in a change in the behavior of an individual or organism. This shift in behavior should be observable.
Behaviorists place much of their argument upon the impact on the emotions of the learner. Thorndike and Skinner have done quite a lot when it comes to this approach to learning. Contrary to what these behaviorists believe, cognitive scholars, on the other hand, believe that education is supposed to be internal, doing with consciousness. They understand that learning should to a large extent focus upon the understanding and organization of thought.
According to fundamentalists, the learning process should entail forearming the learner with the necessary research and problem-solving skills. These are the ingredients that they believe can help one to learn through discovery and fact-finding. Such ideas are put forward by the likes of Wertheimer and Brunner. One’s feelings and personal experiences form the foundations of the humanistic interpretation of learning. Scholars such as Carl Rogers believes in the embracement of a semantic continuum, whereby the learning process is centered on the retention of the concepts learned.
Introduction.
Health, just like any other discipline, has got appropriate learning strategies. These strategies are hinged upon theories, which help in providing a greater understanding of teaching methods. Theories can be defined as a scholarly body of information that tries to explain or describe a certain concept. In other terms, it is a collection of propositions that combine to seek to explain, define or predict an individual concept or phenomena. The aim of learning theories is to provide detailed alternatives as it relates to knowledge dissemination and application.
There is usually a connection between learning and psychology. In real sense, much of what constitutes knowledge and education has been a culmination of the works done by psychologists. Psychologists and other scholars have for quite some time developed theories that have helped towards a further understanding of learning and education. When delving into the field of educational psychology, in particular, there are numerous theories, all of which work towards the same goal; to decipher learning.
These theories offer various perspectives to do with how people learn in different ways. It is these learning methods that form the core, or the foundation, of educational psychology. It is through the understanding of these theories that stakeholders in the field can know how to create a conducive learning environment, which goes a long way into not only streamlining but also harmonizing the education system. The con...