PSY-PC 2600 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hypermedia

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology and Human Development
• Course: PSY-PC 2600
• Professor: Leigh Wadsworth

Document Summary

Well-tested, practical information needed that is directly relevant to the schools, teachers, and students. James - psychology (science of thought and behavior) is intertwined with pedagogy (science of teaching) and lays the foundations of effective educational practice. Don"t want to burden or add a notion of work. Walsh - criticism of think tanks and centers of higher learning that do not now how their realizations translate into everyday practice. Educational psychology - learning across the lifespan in formal and informal ways. Contemporary psychological perspective - think about how the social and instructional contexts of the classroom affect and are affected by individual students" knowledge, strategic processing, development, motivations, ses, etc. Effective educational theory does not move only in one direction from theory and research to practice. Effective practice comes from a realistic approach - with questions, problems, and issues that the teachers and learners face through naturalistic situations.