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| As a result of a successful meaningful learning, the **new idea** will remain **anchored** to a so called **subsumer**. That of course doesn't mean that the learned idea can't be forgotten: this process, referred to as //obliterative subsumption//, happens as more specific idea becomes less and less distinctive from its subsumer until it is finally said to be forgotten. | As a result of a successful meaningful learning, the **new idea** will remain **anchored** to a so called **subsumer**. That of course doesn't mean that the learned idea can't be forgotten: this process, referred to as //obliterative subsumption//, happens as more specific idea becomes less and less distinctive from its subsumer until it is finally said to be forgotten. | ||
| - | Another important and rather controversial part of Ausubel's theory are the **//advance organizers//**: introductory material presented "in advance of the learning material itself" and "at a higher level of abstraction, generality, and inclusiveness" than the learning material((Ausubel, 1963, p. 81)). Purpose of advance organizers is to **help replace the missing concepts** necessary for successful acquisition of new information. Advance organizers should be of greater help to students with less organized cognitive structures, since organized cognitive structures already possess quality anchoring ideas. Critics of Ausubel's theory often reflect the fact that he doesn't describe construction of organizers so different researches provide different results of their efficiency. | + | Another important and rather controversial part of Ausubel's theory are the **//advance organizers//**: introductory material presented "in advance of the learning material itself" and "at a higher level of abstraction, generality, and inclusiveness" than the learning material((Ausubel, 1963, p. 81)). Purpose of advance organizers is to **help replace the missing concepts** necessary for successful acquisition of new information by providing a link between the new material and the learner's established cognitive structure. Organizers help the learner realize where the new material fits in relation to the prior knowledge about the material. |
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| + | Advance organizers should be of greater help to students with less organized cognitive structures, since organized cognitive structures already possess developed anchoring ideas. Ausubel's organizers were in the form of sentences, paragraphs, or questions. However, they were different from overviews. His description of an overview was "a summary presentation of the principal ideas in a passage that is not necessarily written at a higher level of abstraction, generality, and inclusiveness, but achieves its effect largely by the simple omission of specific detail" (Ausubel, 1978, p. 252). Additionally overviews were not relatable to ideas and information the learner already knew. | ||
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| * **Association learning theory**, **cognitive structure**, **concepts**, **subconcepts**, **hierarchy**, **anchoring**, **obliterative subsumption**, **meaningful learning**, **rote learning**, **subsumer**, **organizer** | * **Association learning theory**, **cognitive structure**, **concepts**, **subconcepts**, **hierarchy**, **anchoring**, **obliterative subsumption**, **meaningful learning**, **rote learning**, **subsumer**, **organizer** | ||
| * [[http://www.davidausubel.org/|David Ausubel]] | * [[http://www.davidausubel.org/|David Ausubel]] | ||
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| + | ===== Criticisms ===== | ||
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| + | Critics of Ausubel's theory often reflect the fact that he doesn't describe construction of organizers so different researches provide different results of their efficiency. | ||
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