CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -2 Through assimilation, we take in new information or experiences and incorporate them into our existing ideas. The process is somewhat subjective, because we tend to modify experience or information to fit in with our pre-existing beliefs. Assimilation plays an important role in how we learn about the world around us.

Detailed explanation-2: -The process of assimilating involves taking on the traits of the dominant culture to such a degree that the assimilating group becomes socially indistinguishable from other members of the society. As such, assimilation is the most extreme form of acculturation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ausubel’s assimilation theory states that meaningful learning occurs as a result of the interaction between new information that the individual acquires and a particular cognitive structure that the learner already possesses and that serves as an anchor for integrating the new content into prior knowledge.

Detailed explanation-4: -His theory of organizational assimilation dissects the process into four distinct, yet interrelated phases: anticipatory socialization, encounter, metamorphosis, and exit (Jablin, 1982, 1987, 2001; Miller, 2006). These stages are made distinct by the communication phenomena that occur within each stage.