Learning perspectives Perspective refers to the choice made based on a situation, from which one can measure experience and form a logical belief. Basically, it means a specific point of view in comprehending things. There are diverse theoretical opinions on learning which are related to different learning perspectives. Perspectives can be distinguished socially according to dialectical, socio-cultural and hermeneutic theories. The dialectical perspective maintains that individual learning occurs as a process of changing participation in groups (Stahl, 1998). It explains that learners keenly process data and learning occurs through their own efforts. Here, new views are linked to old ones and relationships between different views are found. According to the Gestalt theories, the key fundamentals of learning are intuition, perception and meaning and the learner was seen as a perceptual individual (Cooper). Dialectical theories are quite different but they are all united by the fact that the learner’s internal mental processes are continually progressing. The socio-cultural view emphasizes that for one to understand learning, they should focus on the social practices that make up ethos since learning is culturally shared (Stahl, 1998). This perspective largely focuses on human interaction. It suggests that learning occurs though analytical and social interactions with other people and through them the principles and norms of societies are learnt. This perspective is somewhat similar to the hermeneutic one, only differing in the view that a learner can observe without necessarily having to imitate what he is learning. The processes that form the foundation for socio-cultural learning are: concentration, preservation, practice and motivation (Cooper). The hermeneutic perspective claims that knowledge becomes meaningful to an individual through