Social Learning

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:

    Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
    Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)

    Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity—both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
    Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)