During this week of class, our assignment was to find a theorist that we would want to have a conversation about our topic with. This was kind of hard for me to figure out at first because I had no idea about any other theorists besides the typical ones that I learned about during rhetoric. And honestly, Kenneth Burke would probably not enjoy my topic as much as some other theorists might. So I started digging.
When I started my search I looked at training and development theorists, and ended up at learning theorists. My search ended with Albert Bandura with his Social Learning Theory. This theory was something I had never heard about, but stuck out to me. When I started reading more about Bandura and his theory, I knew right away that he would love to have a conversation with me about the Title IX trainings that I'm analyzing.
Bandura has four processes of how people learn and that's what he bases his theory off of. Those four processes are how something gets our attention, then how we retain it, then reproduction where we think that we can do something, and then the last one which is having the will to do something that we've just learned or watched.
In terms of how my project goes, I think that it would be super cool to figure out how exactly those four processes work and then put it into a training session to ensure that the students, faculty, or staff get out of the presentation or training what they are supposed to. If these four processes aren't put into play, then it is less likely that anybody will take anything away from it for a long period of time.
I really enjoyed this assignment because researching Bandura was really fun and so was learning about different ways that people learn. It's also very exciting that I now have something else to use for my literature review, which I think will give it a lot of the umph that it's been needing.
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