Albert Bandora Essay

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Alberrt Bandura Albert Bandura was born December 4, 1925, in the small town of Mundare in northern Alberta, Canada (Pajares, 2004). He was the youngest child and only boy among six children in a family of Eastern European descent (Pajares, 2004). His parents had each immigrated to Canada when they were adolescents—his father from Krakow, Poland, and his mother from the Ukraine (Pajares, 2004). Bandura's father worked laying track for the trans-Canada railroad, and his mother worked in the town's general store (Pajares, 2004). They had no formal education but placed a high value on educational attainment (Pajares, 2004). For example, his father taught himself to read three languages, Polish, Russian, and German, and he also served as a member of the school board in the district where they lived (Pajares, 2004). Mundare only had one school at the time so Bandura did all of his schooling in one place (Aboud, 2005). The school had very limited resources, because of these limitations most of the learning was self-directed on the student’s part (Aboud, 2005). Bandura learned a lot about value and importance of self-direction from this time in his life (Aboud, 2005). After graduating high school, Bandura started working in Alaska during the summer (Aboud, 2005). Then he decided to go to the University of British Columbia (Aboud, 2005). He took an introductory psychology course because it fit into an early timeslot thus allowing him to work in the afternoon and became hooked (Aboud, 2005). He graduated three years later in 1949 with the Bolocan Award in psychology (Aboud, 2005). After graduating from the University of British Columbia, Bandura went to the University of Iowa to complete his graduate work (Aboud, 2005). At the time the University of Iowa was central to psychological study, especially in the area of social learning theory (Aboud, 2005). He completed his

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