Meaning learning is learning by understanding the meaning of the material you have learned. As opposed to "mechanical learning". On the basis of applying relevant knowledge and experience, we can grasp the internal and essential relationship of things and achieve the purpose of understanding things.

Ausubel, an American psychologist, believes that meaningful learning means that learners establish substantive and non-artificial connections between the new knowledge represented by symbols and the existing corresponding concepts in the cognitive structure.

Extended data:

Many studies show that meaningful learning is better than mechanical learning in mastering the comprehensiveness, accuracy, solidity and speed of materials.

Ausubel's explanation: Ausubel divides learning into mechanical learning and meaningful learning according to the relationship between learning materials and existing knowledge in learners' cognitive structure. Ausubel believes that meaningful learning refers to the process of establishing a non-artificial and substantive connection between the new knowledge represented by symbols and the existing appropriate concepts in learners' cognitive structure.

Definition of non-artificial: non-artificial means that the relationship between new knowledge and related concepts in cognitive structure is not arbitrary, but based on logic.

Substantive definition: Substantive connection refers to non-literal connection, that is, new knowledge and related concepts in cognitive structure may use different expressions, but they are equivalent. Such as "equilateral triangle" and "triangle with equal sides"

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Meaning Learning