How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice

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This is done by breaking down each key work into sections on why you should read it, the abstract, the article conclusions and implications, how to use it in your teaching and lastly, the key takeaways. Part 1 contains five chapters spelling out how our brain works and what that means for teaching and learning. However, there is a reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence or knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs, or paradigms, which some scholars have critiqued as rooted in the scientific management and neo-managerial norms that seek to disseminate knowledge in formalized, routine, and procedural ways that lack appropriate grounding in the science of learning ( Myran and Sutherland, 2019). Lastly, Part 6 is devoted to cautionary tales and prevalent myths and fables that actually hinder learning rather than facilitate it.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Clear, practical and informative, this is a useful resource for teachers at any stage in their career. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). It can even cause people to resent the learning process because they associated it with fight-or-flight levels of stress.What I love about the book the most, is that you can read each chapter in isolation, very similar to reading academic articles - only more accessible and affordable. Each chapter summarizes an article related to the psychology of learning in language that a non-psychologist can easily understand. Brilliant for the tech savvy who want to get their fingers on the additional resources as fast as possible. It will be adored by many and I hope it introduces some to the complexity of psychology and the study of cognition.

When I first saw the table of contents, I was curious how the authors had accomplished to create a coherent book, but once you start reading it the connections become clear. The six chapters in Part 4 dwell on the role of teachers and give some tips to help them live up to their positive influence potential, involving simple-to-complex elaboration, explicit instructional guidance, and effective feedback.Though we can use Hollywood techniques, we shouldn’t outsource inspiration to the industrial entertainment system.

How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice” is the title of the book and the authors collaborated with Oliver Caviglioli who provided his wonderful illustrations.That said, the authors are not afraid to cut down persistent examples of received wisdom and popular ideologies (the assumed benefit of using ICT, discovery learning, etc) through their “Cautionary Tales” and “10 Deadly Sins of Education”. As for books, he is co-author of How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology, Evidence Informed Learning Design, Urban Myths about Learning and Education and More Urban Myths about Learning and Education as well as of the highly successful book Ten Steps to Complex Learning, and editor of two other books (Visualizing Argumentation and What we know about CSCL).

However – and this is important – said sceptics should not ignore the scope of the chosen papers, the referencing, and the reasoning behind their choice. So often I’ve been asked to recommend a starting text for educators interested in the workings of the mind―now I have one.For example, this book uncovers the fact that the cognitive architecture of the brain has been ignored in education despite the transformative change it would bring.