Current Perspectives in Educational Psychology

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Current Perspectives in Educational Psychology

• Reynolds and Miller Chapter 1

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William James, late 1890s Harvard
University James Dewey (U of Chicago) major
educational reforms Thorndike - intelligence and
learning Terman (1919) Assessment and
tracking Herbart - Educational reforms Vygotsky
(1926-1997) Sociocultural theory of
instruction Howard Gardner (2001)
R O O T S

• What is involved in Educational Psychology?
• Research Methodology, Statistics,
• Evaluation and Measurement
• Program Development Empirical
• Social policies
• Developmental Psychology Authentic Problems
• Learning and Instruction
• School Psychology
• Instructional Theory and Innovation
• Cognitive Neuroscience

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• Domains/scope of the course
• Berliner and Calfee defined (early 1990) the
  scope and
• relevancy of educational psychology as a
  discipline
• Cognition
• Learning
• Development
• Motivation
• Individual Differences
• Learning and the Brain
• Teaching and Instruction
• Classroom and Sociocultural Processes
• Social Relations in Education
• Foundations of Curriculum
• Educational Technology
• Educational Research

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Consistent Conceptual Threads found in this book
Pressley Roehrig (2002)
Berliner and Calfee, 1990
Shift from behaviorism
Debate re Research Methods
Validate These Results
However, the field became more specific

• Other educational
• Applications
• Understanding
• Writing
• Math and problem
• solving

Banduras observational and social learning
Piagets ideas applied into childrens thinking
Sociocultural and cross cultural contexts were
introduced (Vygotsky) Seen on different texts by
Cole and Scribner (1980s) And the theory of
motivation was also included (Weiner, 1979)
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Classroom discussions will be based on the
following sections of text

• Cognitive contribution to learning, development
  and instruction
• Memory and information processes
• Self-regulation and learning
• Metacognition and learning
• Motivation and learning
• Brain based learning
• Instructional, interpersonal and relational
  processes
• Sociocultural contexts for teaching and learning
• Teaching processes in elementary and secondary
  education
• Cooperative learning
• Relationship between teachers and children
• School adjustment
• Gender issues in the classroom

Topics such as curriculum applications,
exceptional learners programs and students and
educational programs research and policy will be
the bases for your presentation and final paper
in class!
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• Jensen Chapter 1
• Jensen Chapter 2