1 How babies learn

Learning is a complex and complicated process, but as you explored in the previous week, babies’ brains have an inbuilt ability to develop the connections that allow learning to happen. There is not one way of learning; we can learn by imitating what we see others doing, we can learn by experimenting, we can learn by using our senses to interact with our environment, we can learn by having a conversation with someone, and there are many other ways too. To help us understand some of the ways that babies and toddlers learn, it is helpful to look at learning development theories and see what they tell us.