Categories with example answers | f (%) |
1) Storing existing knowledge: Learning is seen as absorption, intake of knowledge, or simply storing “Learning is acquiring new information.” | 29 (35%) |
2) Assimilation: Learning is viewed as assimilating new knowledge into a pre-existing framework or interpreting knowledge within an existing framework. “Learning is intaking new information that transforms and expands existing structures of knowledge.” | 36 (43%) |
3) Change or reorganization takes place: Learning is seen as changing thinking or reorganizing knowledge; Learning is an interplay between assimilation and accommodation. “Learning is understanding, observing and acquiring new information connecting things and acting in new ways.” | 18 (22%) |
4) Construction of new knowledge: Learning is seen as changing/reorganizing plus constructing new knowledge, knowledge structures, or new ideas. | 0 (0%) |