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INTRODUCTION
HOW PEOPLE LEARN

Learning can be defined formally as the act, process, or experience of gaining knowledge or skills. Burns ‘conceives of learning as a relatively permanent change in behaviour, with behaviour including both observable activity and internal processes such as thinking, attitudes and emotions'. Burns (1995) considers that learning might not manifest itself in observable behaviour until some time after the educational program has taken place. Learning helps us move from novices to experts and allows us to gain new knowledge and abilities.
There are many different theories on how people learn. This paper will summarize in the next chapter, a range of conventional learning theories. In the third chapter, this paper will discuss on how children learn, concentrating on Piaget's theory and Vygotsky's social cognition theory. Finally the fourth chapter will discuss on the subject of adult learning theories particularly on Knowles' theory of andragogy.......

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