Learning Strategies
In order to facilitate learning, Pask argued that subject matter should be represented in the form of structures which show what is to be learned. These structures exist in a variety of different levels depending upon the extent of the relationships displayed. The critical method of learning according to Conversation Theory is "teachback" in which one person teaches another what they have learned.
Pask identified two different types of learning strategies:
- Serialists – Progress through a structure in a sequential fashion
- Holists – Look for higher order relations
The ideal is the versatile learner who is neither vacuous holist "globe trotter" nor serialist who knows little of the context of his work.
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