Learning Theory and Concepts

Theory entities name the explanatory accounts of how learning happens that this atlas documents, from foundational behaviorist and cognitive-processing accounts through contemporary metacognition and self-regulated-learning research, grouped into ten bands: Behaviorist and Cognitive Processing Theories, Constructivist and Situated Learning Theories, Social and Sociocultural Learning Theories, Motivation and Affective Theories, Memory, Retention and Retrieval Strategies, Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning, Instructional Design and Curriculum Frameworks, Foundational and Developmental Learning Concepts, Critical, Moral and Equity-Oriented Theories, and Adult and Lifelong Learning Theories. This band is where a reader browses education by its explanatory ideas rather than by the people who proposed them or the institutions that apply them; the psychological mechanism a theory describes is Psychology's own province, while this band carries the account specifically as education uses and applies it.