Ausubel's Stages of Learning
David Ausubel identifies four stages needed in a complete "active"
learning sequence.
- Advance organizers are introductory materials,
which provide the learner with a framework within which the particulars can
be understood. (e.g. learning that there are such things as spiritual gifts,
and what they are)
- Progressive differentiation consists of moving
from general explanations to increasingly detailed accounts of differences
and distinctions. (e.g. If the gift of knowledge means knowing things about
other’s lives without them telling you, what is the difference between
that and the gift of prophecy? Or the gift of discernment?)
- Integrative reconciliation is a process of
carefully defining how the new material is the same as or different from existing
known materials. (e.g. Explain how spiritual gifts are the same of different
than spiritual fruits.)
- Consolidation means that there is insistence
on mastery of basic knowledge before going on to new items to be learned.
Using your best guess at what these stages might mean, write
a series of questions that would apply these steps to a discussion on "How
to know the will of God"
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