Social learning may refer to:
- Observational learning (psychology), learning that occurs as a function of observing, retaining and replicating behavior observed in ones environment or other people.
- Social learning theory (criminology), a theory of crime that asserts that humans learn deviant behavior from their peers.
- Social learning (social pedagogy), a theory of education that acquisition of social competence happens exclusively or primarily in a social group.
Famous quotes containing the words social and/or learning:
“What is done for science must also be done for art: accepting undesirable side effects for the sake of the main goal, and moreover diminishing their importance by making this main goal more magnificent. For one should reform forward, not backward: social illnesses, revolutions, are evolutions inhibited by a conserving stupidity.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)