Hi Nancy… yes, we have updating this entry on our to-do list. We were hoping no-one would notice!! Actually, we are in the process of transforming our own thinking about it (very exciting) as we write our book… so give us a few weeks.

Bandura is a social psychologist (and he later morphed the expression “social learning theory” to “social cognitive learning theory”). It is a theory for understanding, predicting, and changing human behavior through interactions rather than a theory about how the social world is organized as a learning system.

Social learning in the way we use it is a flow – or a chain of events – that involves people engaging with each other and which leads to a change in something they care about. So yes, it’s more about person to person aspects that go somewhere. This is important if you view human beings as fundamentally social beings not just interacting beings.

Well, yes, there is a wide range of phenomena that would fall under the rubric of social learning, in the same way that our social life consists of both fleeting connections and deeper relationships. We see these as having complementary effects on social learning capability.

Thoughts?