2nd Edition

Learning is a Verb The Psychology of Teaching and Learning

By Sherrie Reynolds Copyright 2005
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores a new way of thinking about teaching and learning. Its central goal is to help us understand how we think and learn; it will also help teachers understand children and offers a new and helpful perspective on the role of teaching. The book provides an orientation or way of thinking about the psychological dimensions of teaching and learning. This orientation is discussed in... Read more

Preface
1 From Harmony to "Certainty": A Brief History of Thought About Teaching and Learning
2 Post-Modernism: Order Out of Chaos
3 Emotions, Relationships, and the Emergent Mind
4 Mind Over Matter
5 Learning, Remembering, and Understanding
6 The Social Aspect of Ideas
7 Learning as a Condition for Teaching
Epilogue
References
Index

Biography

Sherrie Reynolds, Ph.D. (Texas Woman's University), was a professor of Educational Psychology at Texas Christian University, where she taught until her death in March 2014. Reynolds was also a faculty advisor to the Curriculum Studies department at TCU. In addition to Learning Is a Verb, she wrote a chapter in the 2004 edited volume Chaos, Complexity, Curriculum and Culture as well as numerous journal articles on educational reform, mentoring as teaching, and a taking a Goethean approach to science education. Her research interests included New Sciences as they apply to cognitive processes, caring and community building, social justice, and processes of change.

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