Syllabus
Introductory course Educational Psychology I contains lectures and seminars on selected issues in educational psychology. These are: approaches and paradigms in current educational psychology; teaching profession, its dilemmas and ambivalencies; child becoming pupil/student - different approaches; sociocultural theories and the process of schoolling; knowledge and learning.
The objective of the course is to facilitate to understand the education as a cultural-antropological process; this understanding is based on comparative study of research and bibliography sources. Such a comparison represents the method of the writing work which is the evaluated result of the student.
* Syllabus 1.The thematic field of the educational psychology - its origine, sources and development. Paradigms of educational psychology 2.Educational psychology and its methodology - where its concepts stem from: research in educational psychology 3.Teaching profession - the question of the nature of teaching (profession or semi-profession ?) 4.?Clinical" load of teaching: dilemmas and ambivalencies I 5.?Clinical" load of teaching: dilemmas and ambivalencies and the techniques of self-reflection II 6.The pupil: personality approach (pupil/student as a ?sum of dispositions"). School efficiency and school success/failure 7.Socio-cultural background as ?part" of student´s ?dispositions" 8.Theories of socio-cultural handicap and their critiques 9.Pupil/student, knowledge and learning I. 10.Pupil/student, knowledge and learning II.
Annotation
Educational Psychology I
Key topics of the theory of educational psychology: unit of analysis, missions and methodology, teaching profession, its structure, dilemmas and ambivalences, styles of teaching, conceptions of pupils and students, students´ sociocultural background and their abilities theories of learning motivation