This document provides an introduction to learning and instruction. It discusses key concepts including:
- Itard's experience training "Wild Boy" and the five principles of instruction derived from this
- Instruction aims to promote learning in students and arrange events to support internal learning processes
- Three approaches to researching learning and instruction: behaviorist, cognitive, contextual
- Important metaphors for learning include response strengthening, knowledge acquisition, and knowledge construction
- A cognitive theory of meaningful learning focuses on how instruction affects changes in learner knowledge structures