Variation theory is a theory of learning and experience that explains how a learner might come to see, understand, or experience a given phenomenon in a certain way. In variation theory, it is assumed that there are critical aspects of a given phenomenon that learners must simultaneously be aware of and focus on in order to experience that phenomenon in a particular way. Discernment of a critical aspect of a phenomenon results from experiencing variation in dimensions that correspond to that aspect. For example, if a critical aspect of the concept of “ripe banana” is the yellow color of the banana, learners must experience variation in the dimension of color to discern “yellowness” as a critical aspect of the concept “ripe banana.”
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Orgill, M. (2012). Variation Theory. In Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning (pp. 3391–3393). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_272
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