Human Development in Education
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 178
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 176
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Teachers should constantly be engaged in the art of teaching – applying confirmed knowledge and theory to ever-changing situations, solving unique challenges in real-time contexts.
Human Development in Education increases readers’ factual knowledge, theoretical sophistication, and insight about instruction. This text will serve as a value-added function.
Human Development in Education Features:
- Chapter Outlines
- Key terms bold throughout and reinforced at the end of chapters
- Chapters contain Scenarios designed to guide the reader with further thinking
Chapter 1 – The Nature and Role of Theories of Development
- Humans are Built to Learn
- Human Natures
- An Empirical Knowledge Base
- The Heuristic Value of Theories
- Principles of Human Development
- Relation to Theories of Learning and Mechanisms of Action
- Biographical Information
- Genetic Epistemology – The Origins of Knowledge
- Implications for Classrooms
- Scenarios
- Key Concepts
- Biographical Information
- Major Tenets of the Theory
- Implications for Classrooms
- Scenarios
- Key Concepts
- How Theories of Learning Intersect with Theories of Development
- The Importance of Theories of Learning for Understanding Development
- Behavioral Learning Theorists: Pavlov, Watson, Thorndike, and Skinner
- An Essential Cognitive Learning Theorist: Bruner
- The Essential Social Learning Theorist: Bandura
- A Constructivist Learning Theorist: Bruner
- Instructional Implications of the Intersection of Development Theories with Learning Theory
- Teacher-Clinicians and Students – Living and Learning in the Social Milieu
- Scenarios
- Key Concepts
- How Information Processing Theory Intersects with Developmental Theory
- A Brief Historical Look at Information Processing Theory
- The Importance of Information Processing Theory for Understanding Development
- Instructional Implications of Information Processing Theory
- Scenarios
- Key Concepts
- The Well-Informed Teacher-Clinician
- Core Knowledge – Variations on a Theme
- Implications for Classrooms
- Development-in-Context
- Implications for Classrooms
- Themes Revisited
- Key Concepts
References
Appendix