Course overview
This course will support students in understanding and critically exploring a range of historical and contemporary educationally relevant theories of how children and young people learn and how pedagogical practices are informed by learning theories.
- Intro & Overview
- Piaget 1
- Piaget 2
- Vygotsky
- Vygotsky 2
- Behaviourism
- Bandura
- Cognitive - Memory
- Cognitive Load
- Brain Development
- Bronfenbrenner
- Review & Teacher Identity
Course learning outcomes
- Critically analyse major theories of learning as they apply to the learner
- Critically analyse and employ teaching strategies that respond to the relationship between learning theory and the characteristics of learners
- Articulate students’ own learning and teaching philosophy, values and beliefs
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