Home›Learning Theory and Concepts›All Learning Theory and ConceptsBrowse ByAll Learning Theory and ConceptsReference and ClassificationDevelopingTheory 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.FactsAll Learning Theory and ConceptsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1900 1All Learning Theory and ConceptsFilter Results564 entriesDeveloped ByAllA.S. Neill (1)Aaron Doering (1)Abraham Maslow (1)Alan Baddeley (1)Albert Bandura (3)Aleksei Leontiev (3)Allan Paivio (1)Anna Sfard (1)B.F. Skinner (2)Benjamin Bloom (3)Bettina L. Love (1)Brian MacWhinney (1)Carl Bereiter (1)Carl Rogers (1)Carol Dweck (2)Charles Ferster (1)Charles M. Reigeluth (1)Chris Argyris (1)David A. Kolb (3)David Ausubel (2)David Tall (1)Deanna Kuhn (1)Dell Hymes (2)Derek Bickerton (1)Donald E. Super (1)Donald L. Kirkpatrick (1)Donald O. 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