(Podcast) Educational Psychology

Episode 6 discusses the attributes of critical and creative thinking and how it may be enhanced in the classroom, when teaching existing subject areas.

Episode 7 focuses on understanding how and why individuals differ in the way they learn and how this information might be used by teachers to design instruction.

Episode 8 examines how humans learn from text. Knowledge about learning from text may be used to help learners read their textbooks and other printed materials, which remain the main source of information.

Episode 9 discusses the role of motivation in learning. Especially significant is how intrinsic motivation may be enhanced among learners who are reluctant to learn.

Episode 10 focuses on synthesis of all the learning theories discussed and how they might be used to guide and enhance teaching.

Episode 1 traces the origin of psychology as a discipline, the various branches of psychology and the role of the teacher as a theorist and a practitioner.

Episode 2 discusses the behavioural theories as proposed by Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner and E.L. Thorndike. Behavioural theories ignore mental events and focus on overt expression of behaviours.

Episode 3 introduces the cognitive revolution and discussion of some of its early proponents such as the Gestalt psychologists,Jean Piaget, David Ausubel and Albert Bandura.

Episode 4 focuses on the information processing model discussed in this topic, emphasises the need to study the mental events involved in the processing of information.

Episode 5 reintroduces an old concept, in the form of constructivism which emphasises that reality is constructed by the learner.