西方现代学习理论述评

A Review of the Western Modern Study Theories

学习理论为教育者正确理解和把握学习的实质提供了基础和条件,也为教学理论、教学的研究与实施开辟了可行的道路。以行为主义、认知理论和人本主义为主流的学习理论是现代西方最具影响力的三种学习理论,在其后发展起来的各种理论无不是对它们的补充和修订。分析西方学习理论的优点和局限性,批判地学习和借鉴其精华,对我国当前开展课程改革,推行素质教育,有着极为重要的意义。

Study theories provide educators with not only bases and conditions for the correct comprehension and mastery of the substance of their instructions, but also an accessible path to the implementation of their leaching theories and teaching activities. Behaviourism, cognitive theory and humanism are the three most influential study theories in the western countries, and the subsequent study theories are just their complements or revisions. It is of great importance to our current curriculum reform and quality education to analyse the advantages and limitations of the western study theories and critically learn their essence.