1st Edition

Educational Objectives and the Teaching of Educational Psychology

By Edgar Stones Copyright 1972
330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages
by Routledge

The purpose of this book is to promote discussion about educational objectives generally and objectives in the teaching of educational psychology in particular. To this end, Part 1 contains a review of the literature concerned with these two subjects, and also reports on investigations into the views of British students, teachers, college staffs and educational psychologists on the question... Read more

Acknowledgements - Preface – Introduction. Part 1 1. Objectives in education 2. Educational psychology in teacher preparation – 3. The survey of perceptions of preferred objectives – 4. The survey of attitudes – 5. Objectives in education psychology: a modest proposal – 6. Conclusions – Bibliography. Part 2: Selected readings. On objectives – 1. Some persistent questions on the defining of objectives – Ralph W. Tyler - 2. Stating objectives appropriately for program, for curriculum and for instructional materials – David R. Krathwohl - 3. Instrumentation of Bloom’s and Krathwohl’s taxonomies for writing of educational objectives – Newton S. Metfessel, William B. Michael and Donald A Kirsner – 4. Educational objectives: help or hindrance? – Elliot W. Eisner – 5. Comments on Eisner’s paper – J. Thomas Hastings – 6. Probing the validity of arguments against behaviour goals – W. James Popham. On educational psychology – 1. The relevancy of educational psychology – Arthur P. Coladarci – 2. The objectives of educational psychology in the education of teachers – Harry N. Rivlin – 3. A suggested outline of topics for inclusion in a course of educational psychology – British Psychological Society and Association for Teachers in Colleges and Departments of Education – 4. Is there a discipline of educational psychology? – David P. Ausubel – 5. Psychology in the teacher-preparation program – John Herbert and Donald Williams.Appendices – 1. The schedule of suggested objectives in the teaching of educational psychology – 2. Tables – 3. The attitude scale: statements about educational psychology – 4. Using the model to generate objectives. Name Index - Subject Index

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Edgar Stones (Author)