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#LearningIs social

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From Maslow to Latane to Festinger, and even taking into consideration the 'risky' social experiments of the sixties, such as Zimbardo's Stanford Prison experiment , or Milgram's shocking compliance studies , psychology is replete with explanations about how we operate in social contexts and engage within our communities. Unported License.

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Shocking behaviour

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Their behaviour is not only a model toward which young people pay particular attention, teachers also need to take some care about the manner in which they ask and expect their students to comply. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. Unported License. Lave Situated Learning 25. Lave and Wenger Communities of Practice 26.

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Self fulfilling prophecies

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From this, Rosethal and Jacobson deduced that teachers had treated these children differently, possibly lavishing more attention on them than they had with the rest of the students in the class. Maslow Hierarchy of Human Needs 27. Unported License. Koffka Gestalt theory 21. Köhler Insight learning 22. Knowles Andragogy 24.