| Abstract: | Conclusion Making sense of the world-including the world of school learning-involves making connections between new and existing experiences.
Whether this process is called the construction (Piaget, 1929), the generation (Osborne & Wittrock, 1985) or the creation
of meaning, the relation of new experiences to existing understandings, images, experiences, and feelings are essential to
the process of learning with understanding.
For many years cognitive psychology has focused on the making of logical, sequential, highly structured connections. However,
the computer metaphor for human information processing and storage is now being questioned and cognitive psychologists are
beginning to explore the new ‘unexplorable’-parallel, holistic, divergent, creative mental processes.
In addition, this paper proposes a model of the learning process in terms of reciprocally interactive cognitive, affective,
and social variables. |
