Educational psychology I Group presentation
Educational psychology I
Group presentation
Introducing the crew
Jeremy
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His parents
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His teacher
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His classmates
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People Jeremy has contact with
Jeremy
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Primary Areas of Learning theories
•Cognitivists
•Behaviorists
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Behaviorism
•Learning witness through ‘observable’ behaviours (J.B. Watson)
•Lack Mental process
•Skinner: Operant Conditioning
•Change in voluntary behaviour
•Learning is a behaviourial change
Behaviorism - Role of teacher
•Behavioural engineer
•Thorndike’s Laws of Exercise and Effect
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Approaching Jeremy’s case
•Many negative reinforcers
•Attempt to coax good behaviours
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Approaching Jeremy’s case
•Attention Moves
•Occurs along a spectrum
•Desisting
•Alerting
•Enlisting
•Winning
Approaching Jeremy’s case
•Ms Low should consider positive reinforcers
•Resist sarcasm and other authority-based attention moves
•Affect Jeremy’s self-worth
Limitations of behaviorism
•Student behaviour entirely controlled by teachers
•Does not explain cognitive behaviours
Limitations of behaviorism
•Radical behaviourists
•Forms of behaviour which seem to have no observable reinforcement are ALWAYS the result of some kind of reinforcement (Gredler, 93)
•Motivation NOT in radical behaviourists
Approaching Jeremy’s Case
• Jeremy is UNMOTIVATED
• Failure-accepting student
•Mr chan’s comments that Jeremy is a slow learner
•Damaging to student’s self-attribution
• Learned helplessness
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Approaching Jeremy’s Case
• DeCharm’s causation model
• self-efficacy improved through an appropriately structured lesson
• lack of structure in Mr Tan’s lesson
• Minimal instruction
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Discuss among yourselves
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Approaching Jeremy’s Case
• Cognitivism
• Learning takes place through memory
• “Essential components of learning are the organization of the information to be learned, the learner’s prior knowledge, and the processes involved in perceiving, comprehending and storing information.” (Gredler)
• Information processing model, Schema theory and Meaningful reception theory.
Approaching Jeremy’s Case
•Under structured lesson (DeCharms)
•Mr Tan begins class by giving them a puzzle to solve
•Briefly tells the class the answer according to lessons learnt in previous lesson
• Jeremy rebuked
• Ms Low handling of Jeremy’s failure to anwer questions
Approaching Jeremy’s Case
•Both teachers should have attempted to get Jeremy to provide a correct answer
•Mr Tan should guide Jeremy to the correct answer
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Approaching Jeremy’s Case
•Jeremy has a problem of getting to the point of equilibration
•Disruption in class (Naps, teachers)
•Tuition
•Affects his motivation
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Jeremy’s social situation
•Jeremy as upper middle snob
•parents
•extra classes
•Means of conditioning
•Jeremy’s classmates: reinforcers of non-participation
Constructivist view of Learning
•Learning as social (Vygotsky)
•Students do not learn through social interaction but learning IS social interaction
Approaching Jeremy’s case
•Jeremy must negotiate social interactions
•Greater degree of structure in lessons
•conflicts may be avoided
•humiliation by teacher should be avoided to prevent non-participation.