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Argued in favor of public rather than private education to preserve democratic ideals--a battle still being fought today. He condemned physical force as a method of disciplin.
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Wrote very much as a contemporary educational psychologist might in the first part of the 16th century (1531/1913). He wrote on practical knowledge and the need to engage student interest. He wrote about learning being dependent on self-activity.
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A humanist writing at the beginning of the modern era, also influenced both educational and psychoeducational thought (1657; Broudy, 1963). He wrote texts that were based on a developmental theory and in them inaugurated the use of visual aids in instruction
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Philosopher and psychologist, Johann Friedrich Herbart (17761841). He wrote about what we now call schema theory.
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The time period for those events was approximately 1890 to 1910, the same years that saw American psychology separate from its. European roots and grow into a uniquely American discipline.
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Asked James to provide some lectures on the new psychology to the teachers of Cambridge
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Thorndike was brought to Teachers College as an instructor in psychology
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Experimental methods in education were brand new phenomena
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He can be considered the central figure in the establishment of psychology in America
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At that year's meeting of the superintendents, 48 addresses and discussions were devoted to tests and measurement of educational efficiency.
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Founder of the child-study movement that James worried about, was a promoter of psychology in ways that James must have found distasteful.
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The father of research on teaching.
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Thorndike's influence resulted in an arrogance on the part of educational psychologists, a closed-mindedness about the complexities of the life of the teacher and the power of the social and political influences on the process 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
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Noted that educational psychology had no domain that was really its own to any greater extent than it belonged to others.
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Democritus, for example, wrote on the advantages conferred by schooling and the influence of the home on learning (Watson, 1961)
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By hundreds if not thousands of years, yet fully anticipates their scholarship into aptitude-treatment interactions
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The nature of the subject matter being taught, problem solving, and transfer of learning.
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Writing a decade ago, laid the problems of our field squarely at Thorndike's feet. He cited four ways in which the introduction to the maiden issue of the Journal of Educational Psychology
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Study to organize the American Psychological Association (APA) (Hothersall, 1984).