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500 BCE
DEMOCRITUS
Democritus, wrote on the advantages
conferred by schooling and the influence of the home on learning -
400 BCE
PLATO AND ARISTOTLE
Discussed the educational psychology
topics: the kinds of education appropriate to different
kinds of people; the training of the body and the cultivation of psychomotor skills; the formation of good character; the effects of music, poetry, and the other arts on the development of the individual; the role of the teacher; the relations between teacher and student; the nature of learning; -
1500
JUAN LUIS VIVES
He stated to teachers and others with educational responsibilities, such as those in government and commerce, that there should be an orderly presentation of the facts to be learned, and in this way he anticipated Herbart and the 19th-century
psychologists. He noted that what is to be learned must be practiced -
COMENIUS
He wrote texts that were based on a developmental theory and in them inaugurated the use of visual aids in instruction. Media and instructional research, a vibrant part of contemporary educational psychology, has its origins in the writing and textbook design of Comenius. -
JOHANN FRIEDRICH HERBART
He not only may be considered the first voice of the modern era of psychoeducational thought, but his disciples, the Herbartians, played a crucial role in preparing the way for the scientific study of education -
G. STANLEY HALL
Founder of the child-study movement that James worried about, was a promoter of psychology.
Hall was APA's organizer and its first president. -
WILLIAM JAMES
Can be considered the central figure in the establishment of psychology in America. It was a psychology of humility, humor, and tolerance, giving us the notion that consciousness was continuous-a stream-and not easily divisible. -
JOHN DEWEY
Dewey noted that stimuli and responses occur as part of previous and future chains, because that is the nature of experience. Therefore, we should really think of the stimulus and response as inseparable entities. Dewey and his colleagues at the University of Chicago founded the functionalist school of psychology -
JOSEPH MAYER RICE
the father of research on teaching.
Rice was asked to present his empirical classroom-based research on the futility of the spelling grind to the annual meeting of school superintendents. -
EDWARD LEE THORNDIKE
He took up experimental psychology, puzzle box.
Thorndike was brought to Teachers College as an instructor
in psychology, where he remained a dorninant force in psychology for 43 years,writing 50 books and 400 articles, all without a typewriter or a calculator -
A. D. WOODRUFF
If you wish to write an educational psychology text, start with a good average introductory text.
He wrote a book with three new chapters will have such titles as Learning in the Schoolroom, Measuring Student Progress, and Social Psychology of the Schoolroom. -
JOHN B. CARROL
One of our most honored educational psychologists, published his model of school learning (Carroll, 1963a), he also wrote about the discipline of educational psychology. -
PHILIP JACKSON
He cited four ways in which the introduction to the maiden issue
of the Journal of Educational Psychology set the stage for the difficulties that would follow -
RECENT TRENDS
-Research on teaching
-Instructional psychology
-The Psychology of School Subjects
-Methodology
-Assessment
