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Exploring Educational Psychology Pertemuan 1

Exploring Educational Psychology Pertemuan 1. Matakuliah : E1122 - Psikologi Pendidikan Tahun : 20 10. Definition. Psychology : is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.

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Exploring Educational Psychology Pertemuan 1

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  1. Exploring Educational PsychologyPertemuan1 Matakuliah : E1122 - Psikologi Pendidikan Tahun : 2010

  2. Definition Psychology : is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Educational Psychology : is the branch of psychology that specializes in understanding teaching and learning in educational settings

  3. Historical Background • William James (1842 – 1910): • Gave a series of lecturer called “talk to teachers” • Laboratory psychology experiments often can’t tell us how to effectively teach children • Empesized the importance of observing teaching and learning in class room for improving education http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/jamesz3.jpg

  4. Historical Background • John Dewey (1859 – 1952): • Established the first major educational psychology laboratory at the University of Chicago in 1894 • Important ideas : (1) the child as an active learner, (2) education should focus on the whole child and emphasize the child’s adaptation to the environment, (3) all children deserve to have a competent education. http://scienceblogs.com/purepedantry/dewey.jpg

  5. Historical Background • E.L. Thorndike (1874 – 1949): • One of schooling’s most important tasks is to hone children’s reasoning skills. • Educational psychology must have a scientific base and should focus strongly on measurement http://www.tcrecord.org/images/5248.gif

  6. Diversity and Early Educational Psychology • The most prominent figures in the early history of educational psychology, as in most disciplines, were mainly White males, (James, Dewey, Thorndike) => racial exclusion barriers • Two pioneering African american Psychologists: Mamie & Kenneth Clark www.earlham.edu/publicaffairs/content/pressroom/archive/2004/april/040407s-clarks.php

  7. Diversity and Early Educational Psychology • Latino Psychologist : George Sanchez, who conducted research showing that intelligence tests were culturally biased against ethnic minority children. • Women Psychologist : Leta Hollingworth, the first individual to use the term gifted to described children who scored exceptionally high on intelligence tests

  8. The Behavioral Approach • B.F. Skinner : the mental processes proposed by James and Dewey were not observable and therefore could not be appropriate subject matter for a scientific study of psychology, which he defined as the science of observable behavior • In 1950, Skinner develop the concept of Programmed Learning, which involved reinforcing the student after each of a series of steps until the student reached a learning goal. http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/2646

  9. The Cognitive Revolution • Benjamin Bloom (1950): created a taxonomy of cognitive skills that included remembering, comprehending, synthesizing, and evaluating • The cognitive revolution in psychology began to take hold by the 1980s and ushered in a great deal of enthusiasm for applying the concepts of cognitive psychology -memory,thinking,reasoning,and so on- to helping students learn • More recently, educational psychology focused on the socioemotional aspects of students’ lives. http://www.c21te.usf.edu/materials /institute/ct/index.html

  10. Teaching: Art and Science • Both science and the art of skillful, experienced practice play important roles in a teacher’s succes. • As a science, educational psychology’s aim is to provide you with research knowledge that you can effectively apply to teaching situations. But your teaching will still remain an art.

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