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Argued in favor of public rather than private education to preserve democratic ideals--a battle still being fought today.
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wrote on the advantages
conferred by schooling and the influence of the home on learning -
William James, can be considered the central figure
James's version of psychological science argued against the elementalism of the Europeans, giving us the notion that consciousness was continuous-a stream-and not easily divisible -
G. Stanley Hall Founder of the child-study movement
consistently held a holistic view of human beings, and he understood the important distinction between the real world on the one hand and both laboratory and school tasks on the other -
was founded
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showed this unbridled faith in science, once again, in the introduction to the brand new Journal of Educational Psychology
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psychology in the 1930s, ended with the war arid never again interested the field of psychology as they had. In part, that was because the practical concerns of education during the war made it clear that there was little hope of finding a single, all-purpose learning theory
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Model of school learning ,Published by John B. Carroll, he wrote about the discipline of educational psychology , he provided evidence that it dealt with the real problems of schooling
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added that if you were writing an educational psychology text you had
to delete all references to subjects and insert the term pupil, whereas if you were
writing a child psychology text you had to use the term children instead of subjects. -
founded by John Dewey and his colleagues
a way of thinking about psychology that was strongly
influenced by Darwin. Functionalists promoted a psychology interested in the purpose of behavior or the function of mind. -
Resnick, noted that the problems of real-world instruction were beginning to guide the development of instructional psychology:
An interesting thing has happened to instructional psychology. It has
become part of the mainstream of research on human cognition. learningand development.