ED PSYCH 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Arnold Gesell, Compulsory Education, Behavioural Genetics
2 Feb 2017
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3 factors contributed directly to the rise in compulsory education for children. Keep children controlled, out of trouble (off of streets) Keep them in one place, teach them to be good citizens, and keep them out of trouble. How well do schools provide children with things they really need. All research comes from a theoretical perspective. G. stanley hall father of adolescent psychology . Examines the extent to which our psychological. Primary focus: environmental inputs as drivers of development. Kids are passive in their life/education then they become something down the road. Children play a largely passive role in development. We build cognitive structures by operating on our environments. Focus on processes and strategies involved in completing mental tasks. Concept of cognitive resources and their allocation is important. Interactions among people, social interactions, social and historical context that a person is in. Development can"t be understood apart from the context in which it takes place.
