I have chosen to compare and contrast John Dewey and Nel Noddings views on their educational goals, a social justice curriculum, liberation education, issues of standardized testing and the effects on students and teachers. Dewey’s main educational goal is that education should have two sides: social and psychological. His evaluations are based on how the child interacts with society and how he/she contributes to the good of society. Dewey was the first one to say we need to look at the students to decide how to teach, a modern-day form of ‘differentiation’. He believed that all students should have the opportunity to take part in their own learning.
Although the theories of Piaget, Vygotsky, Erikson, and Kohlberg are relatively abstract, we had to find ways to put them into practice in our teaching. I believe this unit also addressed the same TPEs as the second part of Unit one, going from theory to practice and synthesizing our knowledge about students in general to guide our specific teaching practices. The second part of this unit involved learning how socially developed ways of thinking about race can inform teaching. This learning was specifically related to TPE 11, “Social Environment,” in which teacher candidates must create a positive learning environment including fairness, respect, and caring. During Unit 3, the class explored students with exceptional needs, such as students with learning disabilities who have an IEP.
While rooted in many of the basic concepts of traditional learning theory, Bandura believed that direct reinforcement could not account for all types of learning. His theory added a social element, arguing that people can learn new information and behaviours by watching other people. Known as observational learning, this type of learning can be used to explain a wide variety of behaviours. Basic Social Learning Concepts There are three core concepts at the heart of social learning theory. First is the idea that people can learn through observation.
Conflict, because it was handled positively, was crucial to the group’s progress. Source: Andrea A. Lunsford (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004) 2 Leadership Roles Leadership Roles in a Small-Group Project While classroom lectures provide students with volumes of information, many experiences can be understood only by living them. So it is with the workings of a small, task-focused group. What observations can I make after working with a my peers on a class project?
Fryer, the then Secretary of state for the Labour Party to respond to the Dearing report. Fryer’s report encouraged all to embark on a process of life long learning. This report was fuelled by New Labours New deal initiative to enable people on benefits a new chance to gain employment. ‘Life long learning’ was a net for the disaffected youth, who the educational system had previously failed. The Moser Report challenged further Dearing’s and Kennedy’s report by suggesting that the disaffected youth could be a result of deficiency in the basic skills of individuals such as literacy and numeracy.
Behavior Rehearsal Therapy came from observational learning techniques that were popularized by Albert Bandura in the 1960’s, leading into the ‘70’s. Although Albert Bandura was a social learning theorist, he placed great emphasis on observational learning. He believed observational learning was based on three principles; vicarious reinforcement, modeling, and behavior rehearsal. “Vicarious reinforcement is being influenced by seeing someone else get reinforced, modeling is learning by watching another person perform a behavior, and behavior rehearsal is acting out a behavior to learn and refine as a skill” (Dewey, 2007, p.1). Behavior rehearsal therapy is an extension of behaviorism and experimental methods of psychology.
Perspectives | Theorists | Key aspects | | Social learning theory | Albert Bandura | In this theory, we learn from other people for example family, friends and teachers. People learn from role models. Role models are very important in this theory because. The fact that we learned new behaviour from others show that we have different views of people. If we observe person we will adapt their behaviour if they behave in certain way.
This type of learning is called modeling, or observational learning. Children learn by imitating a model, whether it is a parent, sports figure, or someone else they look up to. According to the social learning theory, imitating models helps children to learn a language, learn gender-appropriate behaviors, deal with aggression, and develop a moral sense. Although this theory focuses on imitating behavior, it recognizes that children can learn through observing, rather than imitating the behavior (Papalia, Olds, & Feldman, 2008). Albert Bandura, an American psychologist who is well known for developing many of the principles of the social learning theory, believed aggression reinforced by family members was the most prominent source of behavior modeling.
Simon Zapata 3 January 2013 Unit One: Expository Paper Education is a general form of learning in which skills, knowledge, and habits are transferred from one person, or group of people to others; this is done by teaching, research, training, self-learning, and also experience. Many authors speak of their upbringing, and the effects education has on them. Some speak of their experiences by using anecdotes, and observations to show the effects of education. Mark Bauerlein, writer of Too Dumb for Complex texts?, criticizes modern teachers and their ways of teaching, and how it is affecting students. Authors Eudora Welty, author of One Writer’s Beginnings, speaks of her experiences with education when they she young, and the effects education
Followed by two different types of learning, instrumental, and classical. Finally, we will conclude with the relationship between cognition and learning. When someone usually explains what learning is, the answer usually is described as the way to gather information, we way a person comprehends, or master’s something from experience or by his or her studies. Psychologist think that the common definition is vague and does not fully define the findings of scientist and observable behavior (Olson & Hergenhahn, 2013). Learning is used to assist in the process of adapting to his or her environment (Olson & Hergenhahn, 2013).