Theory of meaningful learning of Ausubel:

For a long time thought that learning was synonymous with behavior change, this, because prevailing behaviorist perspective of educational work, but it can be said with certainty that human learning goes beyond a simple change of behavior leads to a change in the meaning of experience.

Educational psychology tries to explain the nature of learning in the classroom and the factors that influence these psychological foundations provide the principles for teachers to discover for themselves the most effective teaching methods, since trying to find means by "trial and wrong "is a blind procedure and therefore unnecessarily difficult and uneconomical (Ausubel: 1983).


Ausubel suggests that student learning depends on prior cognitive structure that relates to the new information, is meant by "cognitive structure", the set of concepts, ideas that an individual has in a particular field of knowledge and its organization .

In the process of learning orientation is vital to know the student's cognitive structure, not just about knowing how much information you have, but what are the driving concepts and propositions and their degree of stability.