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Ausubel's Meaningful Learning Model Explained

Ausubel's meaningful learning model proposes that new knowledge is best learned when students can relate it to what they already know. An advance organizer helps facilitate this by providing context or scaffolding to help students link new concepts to existing ideas. There are different types of advance organizers, including expository which describes new content, narrative which presents it as a story, and graphic organizers like concept maps or patterns which outline information visually. Ausubel's theory emphasizes the importance of building on prior knowledge to form a cognitive bridge to incorporate new ideas.

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Ausubel's Meaningful Learning Model Explained

Ausubel's meaningful learning model proposes that new knowledge is best learned when students can relate it to what they already know. An advance organizer helps facilitate this by providing context or scaffolding to help students link new concepts to existing ideas. There are different types of advance organizers, including expository which describes new content, narrative which presents it as a story, and graphic organizers like concept maps or patterns which outline information visually. Ausubel's theory emphasizes the importance of building on prior knowledge to form a cognitive bridge to incorporate new ideas.

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Meaningful Learning Model

In Ausubel's view, to learn meaningfully, students must relate new knowledge (concepts and
propositions) to what they already know. He proposed the notion of an advanced organizer as a
way to help students link their ideas with new material or concepts. Ausubel's theory of learning
claims that new concepts to be learned can be incorporated into more inclusive concepts or
ideas. These more inclusive concepts or ideas are advance organizers. Advance organizers can
be verbal phrases (the paragraph you are about to read is about Albert Einstein), or a graphic.
In any case, the advance organizer is designed to provide, what cognitive psychologists call, the
"mental scaffolding: to learn new information.

Types of Advance Organizers:


1.Expository-describes the new content.
2.Narrative- Presents the new information in the form of a story to students.

Example:

3.Skimming - is done by looking over the new material to gain a basic overview.
4. Graphic Organizers - visual to set up or outline the new information. This may include
pictographs, descriptive patterns, concept maps, and concept patterns.

Example:

•Previous knowledge as the foundation of Ausubel’s meaningful learning theory


Ausubel’s theory of how people learn argues that learning occurs when you increase and
perfect your previous knowledge. Therefore, it gives vital importance to previous knowledge and
to the logic of thought that each person uses to learn.
•Ausubel stated that a cognitive bridge is created between new ideas that interact with old and
previous ones, provided that they’re specifically relevant. These relevant ideas serve as anchors
for the new information, which is why Ausubel called them “anchoring ideas.”

Types of meaningful learning


Ausubel distinguished three types of learning:
1.Representation learning.
•This refers to an elementary learning that the other types of learning depend on. It consists of
the attribution of meanings to certain symbols, associating them to a concrete and objective part
of reality.

2.Concept learning.
•In this learning, the meaning is no longer associated with a specific symbol but with an abstract
idea.

3.Proposition learning.
•The learning that stems from the logical combination of concepts. In other words, a proposition
is a phrase that allows you to express a complex idea and consists of concepts with unitary and
interrelated meanings.

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