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    Learning is a complex process that involves the acquisition of knowledge through experience or being taught. It is a unified process that involves intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual development. While learning is an individual process that varies between people, it also occurs through social interaction and environment. It is self-active in nature, as learners develop their own habits and ways of thinking through active participation. Learning is purposeful, as it involves goal-setting and is motivated by interests. It is also a creative and transferable process, as learners can apply what they learn in new contexts.

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    Learning is a complex process that involves the acquisition of knowledge through experience or being taught. It is a unified process that involves intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual development. While learning is an individual process that varies between people, it also occurs through social interaction and environment. It is self-active in nature, as learners develop their own habits and ways of thinking through active participation. Learning is purposeful, as it involves goal-setting and is motivated by interests. It is also a creative and transferable process, as learners can apply what they learn in new contexts.

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    NATURE AND

    CHARACTERISTICS OF
    LEARNING

    DR. MAHESWARI JAIKUMAR


    maheswarijaikumar2103@gmail.com
    LEARNING
    • Learning refers to the
    acquisition of knowledge or
    skills through study,
    experience, or being taught.
    • “Learning is the act of acquiring
    new, or modifying and reinforcing,
    existing knowledge,
    behaviors, skills, values,
    or preferences and may involve
    synthesizing different types
    of information”. wikipedia
    • Humans, animals and plants
    have the ability to learn. The
    following are the nature and
    characteristics of learning.
    1. LEARNING IS UNITARY.
    2. LEARNING IS INDIVIDUAL.
    3. LEARNING IS SOCIAL.
    4. LEARNING IS SELF-ACTIVE.
    5. LEARNING IS PURPOSIVE.
    6. LEARNING IS CREATIVE.
    7. LEARNING IS TRANSFERRABLE.
    LEARNING IS UNITARY
    • The learner responds as a
    whole person in a unified way
    to the whole situation of
    learning. He /she responds
    intellectually, emotionally,
    physically and spiritually
    simultaneously.
    • The individual learner reacts
    to the whole learning
    situation rather than to single
    situations in a unified way.
    • The total intellectual,
    emotional, physical, social &
    spiritual processes are wholly
    co-ordinated towards the
    achievement of goals.
    LEARNING IS INDIVIDUAL
    • Each learner differs from each
    other and hence the teaching
    learning situation is
    approached differently by
    each learner and with
    different goal & different
    level of result achievement.
    • The factors influencing at the
    individual are many such as :
    hereditary, home environment,
    religious background,
    educational opportunity,
    financial soundness, health,
    work experience and
    environmental factors, including
    the learner’s ability.
    LEARNING IS SOCIAL
    • Learning occurs in response to
    the environment in which
    there are other individuals.
    Learning is social.
    • Learning is social as it takes
    place in the social
    environment of the individual.
    Social maturity takes place
    with opportunities and
    develops into actual
    achievement.
    LEARNING IS SELF ACTIVE
    • An individual learns through
    his own reactions to
    situations. Learning is a
    personal process. Each person
    develops his own habits of
    learning.
    • The teacher can set a pattern
    for the student to imitate
    learning processes. The
    intellect is perfected not by
    knowledge but by activity.
    • Learning is a process of self-
    activity, self-direction, and
    self-realization of an
    individual’s highest
    potentialities.
    • The various forms of self
    activity are listening,
    visualizing, memorizing,
    reasoning, judgment and
    thinking. The self-activity
    guided by a teacher becomes
    an effective activity.
    LEARNING IS PURPOSIVE
    • Learning is directed towards a
    goals and goals are
    determined by motives and
    incentives. Motives takes a
    variety of forms (energy,
    arousing activity).
    LEARNING-PURPOSIVE
    • Learning experiences become
    meaningful when they are
    related to the individual’s
    interests, when involved in his
    living & purpose of life.
    • Thus learning enables an
    individual to make meaningful
    adjustments in life and set
    goals, make more meaningful
    problem solving and result in
    satisfying social relationships.
    • Goal setting comprises both
    momentary and long terms
    goals.
    SHORT TERM GOALS
    • Refers to the specific task at
    hand, interlocking and over
    lapping the immediate goal
    into a goal system, thus
    establishing a series of
    progressive goals.
    • Through a progressive goal
    setting the learning process
    itself becomes the motivation
    for more learning and goals
    are placed on increasingly
    mature levels.
    • Learning is influenced by the
    intention or will to learn, as
    man has a will and can choose
    the action he wishes to take.
    • The action that an individual
    decides to take is determined
    by his concept of whether
    that action is a good or some
    sort. The selection of goal
    depends on many factors.
    • The factors include religion,
    philosophy. Learning includes
    a progressive organizing and
    re-organizing of educative
    experiences.
    • Learning is a gradual or
    developmental process.
    Learning experiences grow
    out of past and present
    experiences through self-
    evidence.
    LEARNING IS CREATIVE
    • Human learning is both
    selective and creative.
    Teaching involves the mind’s
    activity on the part of the
    learner & intellectual
    guidance on the part of the
    teacher.
    • The learner is the primary
    force and the teacher is the
    secondary force. Learning is a
    process of personal choice
    making.
    • The learner has the power to
    vary her responses to the
    demands of the situation & to
    change responses at will and
    thus create a new forms of
    response.
    LEARNING IS
    TRANSFERABLE
    • Transfer refers to the
    application of knowledge, skill
    gained in one context to affect
    another situation.
    • The factors that influence the
    amount and permanency of
    learning are as follows:
    1.Intellectual ability.
    2.Background experience of
    the learner.
    3.The explicitness &
    definiteness of goals.

    4.Relationship between the


    activities of the learner
    and the goals.
    • 5. The whole heartedness of
    the learner’s approach.
    • Transfer depends on
    understanding, also it
    depends on the discovery of
    essential relationships and
    applied deliberately to the
    solution of practical problem.
    • Teacher should provide
    opportunity for problem-
    solving for the applications of
    principles to the solution of
    the problems.
    STAGES OF LEARNING
    • COGNITIVE STAGE.
    • UNDERSTANDING THE
    NATURE & GOAL OF THE
    ACTIVITY.
    • INITIAL ATTEMPTS (GROSS
    ERRORS)
    • ASSOCIATIVE STAGE.
    • MASTERING OF THE SKILL &
    TIMING
    • FEWER & MORE CONSISTENT
    ERRORS
    • AUTUNOMOUS STAGE
    • WELL CO-ORDINATED &
    EFFORTLESS ACTIVITY
    • FEW ERRORS
    • AUTOMATIC PERFORMANCE
    THANK YOU

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