Created to learn /William R. Yount.

Yount, William R,

Created to learn /William R. Yount. - second edition. - Nashville : B and H Academic, (c)2010. - xx, 644 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

"A Christian teacher's introduction to educational psychology"--Cover. Edition statement from cover and preface.



Unit 1. Educational psychology and the Christian teacher. The disciplers' model -- Knowing, science, and the Christian teacher -- Unit 2. Educational psychology and learners. How we develop as persons: Erik Erikson -- How we develop as thinkers: Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky -- How we develop as moral decision makers: Lawrence Kohlberg -- Unit 3. Educational psychology and learning. Traditional behavioral learning: B. F. Skinner -- Social behavioral learning: Albert Bandura -- Cognitive learning I: Jerome Bruner -- Cognitive learning II: information processing theory -- Humanistic learning: Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers -- The Christian teachers' triad: a meta-theory of learning -- Instructional taxonomies: setting up targets for teaching. Unit 4. Educational psychology and motivation. Provoking the desire to learn -- The teacher and classroom climate -- Measurement as motivation: evaluation of learning -- Unit 5. Educational psychology and the brain. Mind over matter: teaching brains by teaching people.



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Christian education.
Educational psychology.

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