Learning Theories for TeachersThis text provides a comprehensive, accessible picture of the nature and implications of prevailing learning theories, and guides readers to construct and evaluate their own views on both the nature of the various learning processes and their appropriate relationship to practice.*Historical analysis of learning theories helps students grasp and clarify points of confusion in modern education. *Includes a new chapter on Vygotsky. *Features a new chapter on the relationship between teaching-learning theories to computer education, including use of the Internet as a source of data for thinking. |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Contents
What Historical Theories of Learning Are Reflected | 21 |
What Is Learning Through Unfoldment or SelfActualization? | 31 |
What Are the Two Current Major Families of Contemporary | 44 |
Copyright | |
19 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
achieve action active Albert Bandura answer apperception aspects associationism B. F. Skinner Bandura basic behav behaviorists biological Bruner centered Chapter child classical conditioning classroom cognitive interactionists cognitive structures cognitive-field interactionist cognitive-interactionist concepts conditioning theory connectionism consequences culture dents Educational Psychology evaluation existentialist experience experimental explanatory-understanding level faculties faculty psychology function goals Hence Herbartian human behavior Ibid ideas identical elements individual insights interac interaction involved John Dewey knowledge Kurt Lewin learning process learning theory lower animals means memory ment mental discipline mind motivation nature objects observed operant conditioning organism pattern perception person physical position principles procedures psychological environment psychology reinforcement relation relationship response S-R conditioning scientific sense situation social Social Learning Theory stimulus teacher teaching and learning theory of learning thinking Thorndike thought tion tive transfer of learning understanding Vygotsky York
Bibliographic information
| Title | Learning Theories for Teachers |
| Authors | Morris L. Bigge, S. Samuel Shermis |
| Edition | 6, illustrated |
| Publisher | Longman, 1999 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Oct 31, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0321023439, 9780321023438 |
| Length | 348 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |