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This theoretical model suggests that the more we know about the basic processes of learning and the strategies used by individual learners, the more effectively we can facilitate learning by designing appropriate activities and resources.
Mackeracher describes learning as a natural, evolving process which originates within the learner and grows from the learner’s need to interact with the environment. This activity of learning is rooted in the need to make sense of experience, reduce the uncertain aspects of life to a manageable level, and act skillfully in order to ascertain one’s survival and security. Certain unexpected conditions may interpose with the act of learning but not the need to learn.
Mackeracher cites three conditions required for learning:
➣Sufficient raw data or experiences must be furnished, with enough repetitions and variations on themes to allow differences in patterns to emerge.
➣Enough time and freedom from threat must be provided to allow the patterns to emerge naturally.
➣Sufficient prior meaning perspectives and programmed structures must exist in the learner’s mind to handle new experiences