ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the various approaches, theories and concepts which provide an overview of the myriad of research in the area of transfer of learning. It attempts to explain transfer and although these expanded understanding somewhat, ironically they have developed it as one of the most complicated and pervasive issues in psychology and education. It builds on the information processing approaches to examine schema theory which plays an important role in a number of current approaches to understanding transfer. The formal discipline or mental disciplines approach to transfer focused on the transfer of general skills and was based on the training of the mind's faculties. The behavioural approach to transfer today is still based upon the issue of similarities and differences in learning and the transfer situation. In recent times the cognitive approach to transfer has assumed considerable importance and a number of scholarly and multi-disciplinary commentaries have contributed to a deeper understanding of the process.
