Learning Theories Grouped by Socio-Historical Context

Bryan R. Warnick


Late Feudalism, Monarchy

Pavlov
British Empiricism

Early Industrial Capitalism, Liberal Democracies
Freud and early psychoanalytic
British Empiricism
Thorndike and connectionism
Gestalt Theory

Late Industrial Capitalism, Liberal Democracies
Late psychoanalytic
Piaget
Watson
Skinnerian Behaviorism
         

Post Industrial Capitalism, Liberal Democracies
Piaget and Post-Piagetianism
Skinnerian Behaviorism
Social Learning Theory
Cognitivism
Sternberg's Triarchic theory
Gardner's Multiple Intelligences

Marxist
Vygotsky