Ausubel noted that
meaningful learning occurs when the material to be learned is related to what students
already know. If, for example, an English teacher is teaching Hemingway's For
Whom the Bell Tolls in her Modern Literature course, she could help her students' attempts to
transfer potentially meaningful themes (such as belief in a cause or loy- alty
to others) into actual meaning by relating those themes to her students'
schemata, such as their willingness
to help one of their friends or their joining a student club dedi- cated to fighting
the use of drugs. She would then have utilized the important ideas in Ausubel's definition of
new meanings.
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