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What is social learning (and how to adopt it)

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Today, we learn by watching, listening, and doing; by blending visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles to understand new concepts, retain that knowledge, and apply them to everyday challenges, at work and at home. This is Bandura’s social learning theory. Social learning theory.

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What is Social Learning (And How to Adopt it)

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Albert Bandura hypothesized that social learning spans the gap between behaviourism and cognitivism. To break that down simply would be to suggest that social learning theory explains how we learn when we are in social contexts – that people learn from their environment via observation, imitation and modeling.