Educational Theory Worth Knowing
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Pages: 30 sides of A4 (or less)
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Overall aim of this chapter: to give the reader a flavour of the most important educational theories that actually make a difference in practise. And we need to illustrate practical ways in which they can be used. Forget the theoretical waffle that educators find interesting but don't particularly use. We want stuff that we use on a frequent basis that is fundamental to promoting effective learning.
- This section is totally negotiable
- Pearl 1: Adult Learning (Andragogy) vs Pedagogy
Knowles’ Principles of Adult Learning , Brookfield’s Principles of Adult Learning (ch 4 McEvoy)
Vella's 12 Principles for Effective Adult Learning
Billington’s 7 Characteristics of Highly Effective Adult Learning Programs
Levels of Learning - Deep vs SuperficialExperiential Learning
- Pearl 2: The Three C’s of Constructivism
- Pearl 3: Reflective Learning Cycles
Gibb’s Reflective Cycle, Kolb’s Learning Cycle, The Educational Cycle - Pearl 4: Models of Group Dynamics
Tuckman’s Groups, Cog’s Groups - Pearl 5: Motivational Theories
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, The ARCS Model for Motivation, The 6 C’s of Motivation
Glasser's Motivating Factors - (p4, induction to practice, the gp trainer's handbook, middleton & field);
The motivational cycle - Pearl 6: The Staged Self Directed Learning (SSDL) Model
- Pearl 7: Learning Styles
Honey & Mumford, VAK model (but is covered elsewhere ch 9) - Pearl 8: Blooms Taxonomy of Learning Objectives
Cognitive & Affective Domains
Psychomotor Domain – The Conscious Competence Learning Model - Pearl 9: Miller’s Pyramid/Prism of Clinical Competence
- Pearl 10: Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction
- PLUS
- Establishing an Education Philosophy (ch 4 McEvoy)
- Hilgard & Bower's three main theories of learning (behavioural, cognitive & motivational)
- Emotional intelligence
- Pulling all of this together: h
- Complexity and Chaos as applied to teaching (?Paul Robinson & Shake Seigel will write this bit) plus Activity Theory (if no one knows much about this, consult Mark Waters)
- Social learning models (?paul milne to write)
- ow we learn (Ch 9 McEvoy - the perspective of the learning continuum)