Theorist’s+Views

Theorist’s views on 'Active and Experimental' learning

===Jean Piaget and John Dewey, both of whom felt that learning by doing is most important. Active learning can also be called hands-on learning or experiential learning. Active learning is the opposite of passive learning, in which teachers talk at students with the hopes the knowledge will sink in. Active learning is the application of other elements of education combined with a certain domain, for example including outdoors, hands on activities other resources other than books( measuring units with actual measurement materials not just working off worksheets).===

===Learning by "doing" is a theme that many educators have stressed since John Dewey's convincing argument that children must be engaged in an active quest for learning and new ideas. Jean Piaget stressed the need for "concrete operations" in early childhood. While few educators are unaware of Piaget's work, many incorrectly assume that active learning is important only in the education of young children. But Piaget makes it clear that this in not so: "Experience is always necessary for intellectual development...the subject must be active...." (in Labinowicz 1980). Although Piaget's research was focused primarily on young children, a growing body of research indicates the efficacy of active learning for secondary and postsecondary students.===