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David Ausubel, M.D. (1918 - 2008 ) Meaningful Verbal Learning Subsumption Theory
Biography David Ausubel was an American psychologist who did his undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania (pre-med and psychology). He graduated from medical school at Middlesex University. Later he earned a Ph.D in
Meaningful Verbal Learning Meaning is created through some form of representational equivalence between language (symbols) and mental context.
Two processes are involved: 1. Reception, which is employed in meaningful verbal learning,
Ausubel's work has frequently been compared with Bruner's. The two held similar views about the hierarchical nature of knowledge, but Bruner was strongly oriented toward discovery processes, where Ausubel gave more emphasis to the verbal learning methods of speech,
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act as a subsuming bridge between new learning material and existing related ideas.
Two benefits: 1. You will find it easier to connect new information with what you already know about the topic 2. You can readily see how the concepts in a certain topic are related to each other
e. KWL chart
1. Derivative Subsumption
describes the situation in which the new information you learn is an example of a concept that you have already learned.
Ex. You have acquired a basic concept such as bird. We know that a bird has feathers, a beak, lay egg.
2. Correlative Subsumption
3. Combinatorial Learning
Imagine that a child was well acquainted with banana, Mango, dalandan, guava etc. but the child did not know Until she was taught, that these were all examples of fruits.
In that case the child already knew a lot of examples of the concept, But did not know the concept itself until it was taught to her.
4. Combinatorial Learning