Human Learning International edition - Couverture souple

Jeanne, Ormrod

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0132766671 ISBN 13 : 9780132766678

Editeur : Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2011

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

The sixth edition of market-leader, Human Learning, features the most up-to-date research and practice in the field of learning applied to education today. Best-selling author, Jeanne E. Ormrod’s hallmark clear and engaging writing style remains as captivating as ever. Every chapter features key pedagogical concepts with specific applications to classroom practice, numerous concrete examples illustrating key concepts, principles, and recommendations, and dozens of proven examples to help make the fundamentals of these theories comprehensible to students with little or no prior coursework in psychology. The unique combination of core content, anecdotes, and personal stories come together in an appealing manner, in such a way that will engage its readers at every step, keep them reading all the way through.

Key content and changes:

 

·    Covers a broad-range of learning theories: behaviorist views of learning; social cognitive theory; cognitive views of learning; developmental perspectives on learning; complex learning and cognition including metacognition, transfer, and social processes in knowledge construction; motivation and affect related to learning; associationistic processes; and more complex and distinctly human processes.

·    Teaching Implications in every chapter promote an ease of transfer from theory and research into practice.

·    Significant updates that reflect the most current research and new theories in the field

·    Expansion of the chapter on cognition and memory

·    Re-organization of Piaget and Vygotsky content into two separate chapters

·    A core section on teaching critical thinking skills

·    Discussion of technology-based instructed has been significantly revised and expanded in this edition.

 

Présentation de l'éditeur

This highly respected, market-leading textbook on learning theories applied to education prepares pre-service teachers and other educators with a unique and meaningful learning experience. The sixth edition of Human Learning covers a broad-range of learning theories and key perspectives on learning related to education, including: behaviorist, cognitive, social cognitive, contextual, and developmental theories, always highlighting relationships between concepts. Additionally, the text details associationistic processes (e.g., classical and instrumental conditioning), and more complex and distinctly human processes (e.g. metacognition, self-regulated learning, critical thinking). Every chapter features key pedagogical concepts with specific applications to classroom practice, numerous concrete examples that illustrate key concepts, principles, and recommendations and dozens of proven examples help make the fundamentals of these theories comprehensible to students with little or no prior coursework in psychology. 

 

Significant updates to this textbook include: important updates to reflect the most current research and new theories in the field, expansion of the chapter on cognition and memory, re-organization of Piaget and Vygotsky content into two separate chapters, a core section on teaching critical thinking skills, and the discussion of technology-based instructed has been significantly revised and expanded in this edition.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Financial Times Prentice Hall
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0132766671
• ISBN 13: 9780132766678
• Reliure: Broché