Social Learning Perspective and Its Implications Education Class Room Dr. Kumar Vishnu* Assistant Professor, Dept. of Education, Jainvishva Bharati Institute, Ladnun, Rajasthan, 341306, India *Corresponding author: Dr. Vishnu Kumar, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Education, Jainvishva Bharati Institute, Ladnun, Rajasthan, 341306, India, E-mail: vishnukumar1975@rediffmail.com
Online published on 1 May, 2018. Abstract Social learning perspective has application for learning in mainstream classroom for the individuals with challenging behaviour. Although a variant of the traditional behaviourist view on learning and development, it furthered the applicability of the principles of conditioning and reinforcement elaborated earlier by Skinner, bringing a more contextual approach to learning by observation and imitation. Bandura's social learning perspective presents a thesis that demonstrates that modelling is the basis of the development of a wide spectrum of behaviour in children. What implications this paper has for learning is that the learner can learn skills and behaviour simply by watching and listening to others around them. Then again, that through the agency of modelling the learner can learn to learn or unlearn new and old behaviours respectively. Therefore, in considering the learning interventions appropriate for the learners in inclusive mainstream classroom, modelling can be an appropriate approach to a learning process designed to target their learning needs. Bandura's social learning perspective perhaps might be an indispensible component of interventions in targeting the learning needs of this group of learners if inclusive principles are to be achieved and all learners equally supported in this context. Top Keywords Social learning; Observational Learning. Top |