Factors and educational implications of insight learning

Insightful learning depends on certain factors:

1. Experience:

Example: Problems of modern mathematics solve unless he is well acquainted with its symbolic language.

2. Intelligence:

More intelligent greater will be his insight.

3. Learning Situation:

Insight occurs when the learning situation is so arranged that all  the necessary aspects are open to view.

4. Initial Efforts:

Insightful learning has to pass through the trial & error but this stage does not last ling it should be in the form of an initial effort to open the way for learning.

5. Repetition & generalization:

Obtained solution of a problem is implement in another situation demanding similar type of solution

Educational implications of Gestalt theory of learning:

1. Learning purposeful & goal oriented.
2. Motivation to the learner
3. Acquaint with specific aims & purposes of the learning.
4. Emphasis on situation as a whole – maxim from whole to parts.

Example: To learn or memorize a poem, present as a whole. After being read & understood as a whole, break into parts or stanzas  as for effective memorized.

5. Organization of a perceptual fields & learning material as a whole.

Learning cannot be related to subject or skill. It should be collection of isolated facts, informations or unrelated behaviuoral acts. Contributes in organization of curriculum, scheme of studies, work plan & procedure of planning the schedule of learning or teaching of a skill or a behavior.

6. Distinction between a psychological & a logical order of presentation.

Example: to teach matter we have to proceed as subelectronic particles electrons, atoms molecules and matter.

Example: in geography: map of the world an orange and the relation of sun & earth.

7. Problem solving attitude develops
8. Encourages reasoning, develops thinking & trains imagination & creative activity