Education theory.

Education theory is a broad field of research involving education, or the process of teaching and learning information, skills, morals, and other important knowledge. Like education itself, education theory may take diverse forms. Although education is a fundamental human experience dating back to humanity’s earliest days, education theory is relatively new. This field of study mainly arose in the 1800s when researchers began studying how humans and animals react to various stimuli in their environments. Later developments took education theory in a far more humanistic and individualized direction, emphasizing the unique learning styles of individual learners and various methods by which these people may absorb, store, and use new information. The study of education expanded enormously in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and is highly influential in world academic systems, even though some critics point out that theories have limited use until they are implemented in real-world practices. Education theory may also be known as instructional, pedagogical, or learning theory.