Teorie dell'apprendimento: una lista completa

All'inizio dell'anno scolastico il docente cerca di farsi venire nuove idee per poter catturare gli studenti sempre più indolenti e disinteressati. Spesso la nostra ricerca si posa su paradigmi e teorie dell'apprendimento che non conosciamo e che sembrano aprire mondi didattici a noi sconosciuti.
Il bel sito inglese Learning Theories  raccoglie una lista molto aggiornata di tutte le teorie dell'educazione che sono state elaborate da pedagoghi e psicologi, raccogliendole in grandi categorie:

Behaviorism
• Classical Conditioning (Pavlov) – FREE access • GOMS Model (Card, Moran, and Newell) • Operant Conditioning (Skinner) • Social Learning Theory (Bandura)


Cognitivist Theories
• Attribution Theory (Weiner) • Cognitive Load Theory (Sweller) • Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (Mayer) • Elaboration Theory (Reigeluth) - Functional ContextTheory (Sticht) • Gestalt Theory(von Ehrenfels) • Situated Cognition (Brown, Collins & Duguid) • Stage Theory of Cognitive Development (Piaget)

Constructivist, Social, and Situational Theories
• Anchored Instruction (Bransford) • Cognitive Apprenticeship (Collins et al.) • Communities of Practice (Lave and Wenger) • Connectivism (Siemens, Downes) • Discovery Learning (Bruner) • Multiliteracies (New London Group) • Semiotics (deSaussure, Barthes, Bakhtin) • Social Development Theory (Vygtosky) • Problem-Based Learning (PBL)-FREE access • Situated Learning (Lave)

Motivational and Humanist Theories
• ARCS Model of Motivational Design (Keller) • Emotional Intelligence (Goleman) • Experiential Learning (Kolb) • Flow (Csikszentmihalyi) • Grit (Duckworth, Matthews, Kelly, Peterson) • Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (Maslow) • Self-Determination Theory (Deci and Ryan)

Design Theories and Models (Prescriptive)
• ADDIE Model ofInstructional Design • ARCS Model of Motivational Design (Keller) • Elaboration Theory (Reigeluth) - Multimodality (Kress)

Descriptive and Meta Theories
• Activity. Theory (Vygotsky, Leontev, Luria, Engstrom, etc.) • Actor-NetworkTheory (Latour, Callon) • Bloom's Taxonomy (Bloom) • Distributed Cognition (Hutchins) • Social Network Analysis (Scott, Prell)

Identity Theories
• Erikson's Stages of Development (Erikson) • Identity Status Theory (Marcia) – FREE access • Self-Theories: Entity and Incremental Theory (Dweck)

Media and Technology Theories
• Digital Citizenship 

Miscellaneous Learning Theories and Models
• Affordance Theory (Gibson)
• Multiple Intelligences Theory (Gardner)

• 21st Century Skills (P21 and Others)