WAYS PUPILS LEARN

DIANA BURTON

From: Learning to Teach in the Secondary School 5th edition, Routledge © 2009

UNIT

5.1

At the end of this unit you should be able to:

• appreciate the interaction between ideas

about learning and pedagogic strategies

• begin to explain and differentiate between

some psychological perspectives on learning

• appreciate more about your own approach to

learning.

From: Learning to Teach in the Secondary School 5th edition, Routledge © 2009

OBJECTIVES

PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON

LEARNING

• How ideas about teaching and learning interact • Psychological perspectives on learning

– Cognitive developmental theory • Piaget

– Social constructivist theory • Vygotsky • Bruner

• Constructivism • Information processing theory (IP theory) • Concept development

From: Learning to Teach in the Secondary School 5th edition, Routledge © 2009

LEARNING STYLES, STRATEGIES AND APPROACHES

• Learning style

• Learning strategy

• Learning approaches

From: Learning to Teach in the Secondary School 5th edition, Routledge © 2009

To explore this material further, read:

Burton, D. (2009) ‘Ways pupils learn’, in S. Capel, M. Leask and T. Turner (eds) Learning to Teach in the Secondary School: A Companion to School Experience, 5th edn, London: Routledge.

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FURTHER INFORMATION

Bartlett, S. J. and Burton, D. M. (2007) Introduction to Education Studies, 2nd edn, London: Sage/Paul Chapman Publishing.

Bee, H. and Boyd, D. (2006) The Developing Child, 11th edn, London: Allyn and Bacon.

Child, D. (2007) Psychology and the Teacher, 8th edn, London: Continuum.

Riding, R. (2002) School Learning and Cognitive Styles, London: David Fulton.

Shayer, M. and Adey, P. (eds) (2002) Learning Intelligence: Cognitive Acceleration across the Curriculum from 5 to 15 Years, Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press.

From: Learning to Teach in the Secondary School 5th edition, Routledge © 2009

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