Personal and Preoffesional Developemnt

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                                                                                         Vanessa Addo

Personal and Professional Development

In Health and Social. (Unit 6)

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Explain key influences on personal learning process of individuals 

M1

Analyse the impact of key influences on personal learning processes on own learning.

In this assignment, I will be explaining the key influences on personal learning process of individual’s personal learning processes. There are many different types of key influences on an individual’s learning processes and each of these all have effect whether positive or negative on the individual’s learning processes and abilities.  I will state these influences and explain the potential affect these particular influences will have on the individual’s personal learning. I will also be analyse the impact of key influences on personal learning processes on own learning.

Learning is the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge and also acquisition and development of memories and behaviours, including skills, knowledge, understanding, values and wisdom. Learning is the goal of education.  

Theories of learning

Kolb’s theory suggests that during adolescences and early adulthood we begin to develop instinctive preferences as to the way in which we process information and use it to make sense of our own experience. He showed learning has a cycle with four different stages of learning.

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In 1985 Honey and Mumford developed learning style theories. They reviewed the way which different employees learned and also identified four learning style. This includes:

  • Activists- are individuals who acts before thinking, don’t like to prepare and get bored easily.
  • Reflectors- an individual, who considers all angles and implications, listen to other and dislike deadlines.
  • Theorists- perfectionist and don’t like uncertainty
  • Pragmatists – they enjoy coaching and feedback and don’t like open ended discussions.
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