Learning Knowledge and Human Development Overview

This, course, introduces you to learning, knowledge, and human development. Bill Cope and in one section, deal with the various histories and, the paradigms associated, with learning and knowledge, in education over time. Dorothy Espelage, will introduce issues related to social and emotional conditions for learning. And Denice Hood will, discuss student development in the college context. George Reese, will talk about, learning to think in mathematics, science, and technology education in schools in complex contexts. And Joe Robinson, will be, putting, quantitative psych-psychology research, to work, in educational contexts. In this course, just to elaborate little bit on what Mary just said, we have very diverse series of voices, and what we wanna do is give you a-a kind of sense of some of the things that happen in the domain that's called educational psychology. So Mary and are going to start off in the-the first section giving the-the most schematic of overviews of the history of educational psychology. And in which we kind of, divide it into three major paradigms. It's sort of an oversimplification in way, but it's way of building- building kind of map. of what the field is, in very general way. Then we move on and we hear from, Dorothy Espelage, Dorothy Espelage, is leading researcher in the whole area of bullying. Which is kind of, subset of the larger, domain which is often called the social and emotional conditions of learning. In other words, bullying is one, is one issue which is quite specific and incredibly important in this particular context for all sorts of reasons. But i-the general issue is, what kind of social and emotional conditions, are optimum for students as they learn? Becoming more specific now, if you like about well what do we do with this, knowledge? Denice Hood talks about student development, her case study, or the area that she's talking about is college. But this is whole area of applied educational psychology, which is often called, student counseling, for example, so, it's, i-y- it's-it's very important area, and it's one of the ways in which, the insights of educational psychology are directly applied in school context. Now another form of application of the insights of educational psychology is in the development and design of pedagogical sequences. And we have here, a-a very nice example of this from George Reese, who works here in the College of Education, an expert on teaching in STEM, science, technology, education, mathematics. And, what he talks about is the dynamics of learning to think. So another aspect of educational psychology is analyzing the dynamics of cognition, right? So we have here, a-a-a nice example of this in the work that George Reese does here. They're very innovative and interesting work he does here in the College. And now another very notable person in the whole realm of educational psychology, Joe Cimpian-Robinson and, e-we've included him here because we want you to understand some of the technical methods which psychologists as researchers use. to understand learning across institutions. So what, what Joe's working with here is whole lot of educational data. And he's using kind of advanced statistical techniques to try to understand what's happening in educational institutions. Now this statistical, or quantitative a-approach to psychology, is one of the many strands in psychology as discipline. And we wanted to give you flavor of the kind of work researchers do, when they use these methods.