Full Description
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.
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?
