CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Definition. Ausubel’s theory is concerned with how individuals learn large amounts of meaningful material from verbal/textual presentations in a school setting (in contrast to theories developed in the context of laboratory experiments).

Detailed explanation-2: -Ausubel advocated that the most important factor in learning is that which the learner already knows. “Meaningful learning occurs when the learner interprets, relates, and incorporates new information with existing knowledge and applies the new information to solve novel problems”[3].

Detailed explanation-3: -The Meaningful Learning Theory is attributed to David Ausubel. According to this theory, students are considered to be the center of the teaching learning process, and the teachers are the facilitators. Meaningful Learning occurs when the new information is related to prior knowledge.

Detailed explanation-4: -David Ausubel was a constructivist psychologist and pedagogue. He was born in New York on October 25, 1918.