PAST: THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION PSYCHOLOGY
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."(Albert Einstein)
CHARACTERS
- Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
- Psychology contributes to a better understanding of the aims of education by defining them, making them clearer; by limiting them, showing us what can be done and what can not; and by suggesting new features that should be made parts of them.
- Psychology shares with anatomy, physiology, sociology, anthropology, history and the other sciences that concern changes in man's bodily or mental nature the work of providing thinkers and workers in the field of education with knowledge of the material with which they work.
- Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
- Educational psychology is a special field of endeavor because it strives to apply what is known about many different disciplines to the broad process of education.( Edward L. Thorndike 1910)
- Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
- Psychology contributes to a better understanding of the aims of education by defining them, making them clearer; by limiting them, showing us what can be done and what can not; and by suggesting new features that should be made parts of them.
- Psychology shares with anatomy, physiology, sociology, anthropology, history and the other sciences that concern changes in man's bodily or mental nature the work of providing thinkers and workers in the field of education with knowledge of the material with which they work.
- Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
- Educational psychology is a special field of endeavor because it strives to apply what is known about many different disciplines to the broad process of education.( Edward L. Thorndike 1910)
Early Psychologists
(Saylor Academy, 2012). The earliest psychologists that we know about are the Greek philosophers Plato (428–347 BC) and Aristotle (384–322 BC). These philosophers asked many of the same questions that today’s psychologists ask; for instance, they questioned the distinction between nature and nurture and the existence of free will. In terms of the former, Plato argued on the nature side, believing that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn, whereas Aristotle was more on the nurture side, believing that each child is born as an “empty slate” (in Latin a tabula rasa) and that knowledge is primarily acquired through learning and experience.
The earliest psychologists were the Greek philosophers Plato (left) and Aristotle. Plato believed that much knowledge was innate, whereas Aristotle thought that each child was born as an “empty slate” and that knowledge was primarily acquired through learning and experience.
Functionalism and Evolutionary Psychology
James and the other members of the functionalist school were influenced by Charles Darwin’s (1809–1882) theory of natural selection, which proposed that the physical characteristics of animals and humans evolved because they were useful, or functional. The functionalists believed that Darwin’s theory applied to psychological characteristics too. Just as some animals have developed strong muscles to allow them to run fast, the human brain, so functionalists thought, must have adapted to serve a particular function in human experience. The functionalist school of psychology, founded by the American psychologist William James (left), was influenced by the work of Charles Darwin. (Saylor Academy, 2012)
VIDEO
WHAT ARE THE SIGNIFICANT FIGURES IN EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY ?
PICTURES OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURES IN EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
JOHAN HERBART
WILLIAM JAMES
JOHN DEWEY
THEORY
LEARNING THEORIES; BEHAVIOURISM, COGNATIVISM AND CONSTRUCTUVISM
CONCLUSION:
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"These figures that gave the initiatives in psychological education,they were the main actors in taking this discipline as a fundamental point in the human being in all its parameters and contexts in which society develops. In addition to being a science, the characteristics of psychological education show us that this contributes to education, studying the behavior of human beings to meet their future goals and objectives."
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