Educ. 220! Psychological Issues in Educa!n
    REGULAR SUMMER SEMESTER 1983
    Wednesday 1:00 - 3:50
    CALENDAR DESCRIPTION: Human variability
    and development.
    COURSE CONTENT:
    INSTRUCTOR: ?
    Dr. John F. Ellis
    LOCATION: on campus
    relationships between motivation, learning
    The course will contain two elements: psychological information which bears upon the
    practice of education and current educational issues which contain psychological components.
    Psychological topics will include the following:
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    learning theory, motivation, individual
    differences.
    Educational issues will be selected from such topics as: class size, provision for
    learning disabilities (and other forms of human variability), public versus professional
    control, conflicting views of schooling, etc.
    Teachers, parents, taxpayers and politicians are continuously dealing with educational
    issues. They take actions, express opinions, cast votes and develop policies on the
    basis of their analysis of an issue. Most typically the analyses are incomplete,
    unconsciously biased or ill-informed. Sometimes, regrettably, analysis is ignored
    and emotion or ideology takes its place.
    Almost every issues is complex and is interrelated and intertwined with other issues.
    The issue of class size, for example, involves economic, political, social, psychological
    and ideological questions.
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    In addition, it is interrelated with other issues such
    as teacher preparation, the nature of learning and provisions for learner variability.
    EXPECTATIONS:
    It is expected that students who successfully complete this course will be able to do
    the following:
    1.
    to demonstrate knowledge of specific psychological matters which bear
    upon education;
    2.
    to comment knowledgeably on the psychological aspects of major educational
    issues;
    3.
    to demonstrate an awareness of the complexity of an educational issue.
    REQUIREMENTS:
    1.
    Mid-term exam - Short essay - based on lectures and assigned
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    25 points
    readings to date
    2.
    Essay/Project ?
    35 points
    3.
    Final exam - Short essay - based on lectures and assigned
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    40 points
    readings for entire semester.
    TEXTBOOKS:
    REQUIRED: Gage and Berliner. Educational Psychology (2nd ed.). Rand McNally, 1975.
    OPTIONAL: Bierly, Gage and Berliner. Student Study Guide to Educational Psychology.
    Rand McNally, 1975.

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