Brian Cambourne’s Conditions for Learning/ theory about learning 8.

Response

-Eight different conditions for learning that most human beings use to learn. Children need useful feedback from others.

-these are elements necessary for a person learn and feel good about the -relevant, appropriate, timely, convenient and non threatening
learning taking place.

1. immersion
Aesthetic way of knowing looks beneath the surface and pays attention to
Children needs to be immersed in aesthetic experiences underlying details.

2. Engagement Connect thoughts with same feelings and ideas. Ex. Singer from live band
can interpret feeling from song rather than amateur or machine.
When learners can say:
Young children are highly sensitive to sensory or aesthetic qualities of
I can participate in what I learned- I am an actor, singer, dancer artist and
objects and experiences that they encounter for the first time.
musician
Young children have active imaginations and unique ways of expressing
These art experiences are important in my life
mental images their minds produce.
I f I try something new, I will not be punished or ridiculed if it isn’t perfect
Activities most enjoyed, appreciated and remembered were play-based and
3. Expectation involving expressive arts. (fauth 1990)

Children need teachers who are creative role models and have high 10% reading
expectations for creative abilities of their students
20% hearing
4. Use
30% hearing and seeing
Children need time and opportunity to use art in meaningful ways
70% hear see and say
5.Demonstration
90% hear see say and do
Demonstration of arts and uses
Pre-school: three to five years
6. Responsibility
-imagination is flowering
-children need child initiated and child directed experiences, their own
-imitation-being able to do something even without the model (PIadget and
decisions on when, how and what to learn.
inhelder, 1969)
7. Approximation
-rapid period of growth in story enactment; if children have heard stories
-free to work at a task without concern for “mistakes” ther work to make sense out of it.

-capable of using fantasy and imagination to cast themselves in myriad

roles.
The mind seeks patterns in complexity

Human beings have the tendency to organize information by cases, episodes

into stories- this is one major way the brain imposes a pattern or structure
on complex experiences.

Source: The arts in childrens lives:aesthetic education in early childhood

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