Synopses & Reviews
This text provides a comprehensive, manageable overview of current major educational psychological theories and issues and analyzes the implications for the teaching process.
Adopting the idea that there are no final answers to questions concerning school learning, this text encourages teachers to develop their own learning theories and test them in terms of classroom reactions, structure, and the adequacy of supporting evidence. Learning Theories for Teachers enables student teachers to use learning theory to better understand their students and alter teaching methods accordingly.
Special Features:
- New Foreword by Albert Bandura introduces the text.
- Comprehensive and balanced treatment of multiple learning theories.
- Renowned for a direct, clear presentation of often-difficult material.
- Eleven different learning theories are developed, including historical and contemporary perspectives.
- Chapter on Vygotsky (Ch. 6) has been updated to reflect ongoing interest in this prominent psychologist.
- Expanded coverage of cognitive field psychology (Ch. 9) has been retained.
- Chapters (Chs. 14, 15) on the relationship between teaching-learning theories and computer education, including use of the Internet as a source of data are included.
- Material on Teaching for Understanding reflects the latest trends in educational psychology.
- Historical analysis of learning theories helps students grasp and clarify points of confusion in modern education.
- Discussion of problem-centered understanding helps students recognize and evaluate reflective problem-centered teaching and learning.
Synopsis
This text provides a comprehensive, manageable overview of current major educational psychological theories and issues and analyzes the implications for the teaching process.
Adopting the idea that there are no final answers to questions concerning school learning, this text encourages teachers to develop their own learning theories and test them in terms of classroom reactions, structure, and the adequacy of supporting evidence. Learning Theories for Teachers enables student teachers to use learning theory to better understand their students and alter teaching methods accordingly.
Table of Contents
1. Why Is Classroom Learning a Problem?
2. What Historical Theories of Learning Are Reflected in Current School Practices?
3. What Are the Two Current Major Families of Contemporary Learning Theory?
4. How Do the Families of Contemporary Learning Theory Describe the Learning Process?
5. How Does Skinnerian Operant Conditioning Work?
6. How Does Vygotsky's Thought and Language Imply a Theory of Learning and Teaching?
7. How Does Bruner's Cognitive-Interactionist, Narrative-Centered Psychology Treat Learning and Teaching?
8. What Is Bandura's Linear-Interactionist Social Cognitive Learning Theory?
9. What Is the Cognitive-Field Interactionist Theory of Learning?
10. How Does Learning Transfer to New Situations?
11. How Is Learning Theory Related to Teaching Practices?
12. How May Teachers Teach for Explanatory Understanding?
13. How Does Explanatory-Understanding Level Teaching and Learning Proceed?
14. How are Teaching-Learning Theories Related to Computer Education?