Meaningful Learning
Meaningful learning is David Ausubel's 1968 concept, from *Educational Psychology: A Cognitive View*, describing the cognitive process by which a learner incorporates new concepts into their existing knowledge structure by recognizing how the new concepts relate to concepts they already hold. It contrasts with rote learning, in which the learner memorizes information without integrating it into prior knowledge. Concept mapping is the instructional technique most directly designed to operationalize meaningful learning — the act of naming relationships between concepts forces the integration the theory describes.
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Concept Mapping is a learning activity in which participants construct a visual diagram — a concept map — showing how the concepts in a domain relate to each other. Each concept appears as a labeled…