Instructional psychology : past, present, and future trends : sixteen essays in honour of Eric de Corte / edited by Lieven Verschaffel ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Corte, Erik de.

Verschaffel, Lieven, 1957-

Series:

Advances in learning and instruction series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning, Psychology of.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2006.

Summary:

To celebrate Erik De Corte's scientific career in the international scientific field of instructional psychology, all (past-)presidents of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction and several other famous scholars with whom Erik De Corte had a long and strong scientific and personal liaison, were invited by the editors to write an essay on "the past, present, and future" of the subdomain of instructional psychology of their personal interest and expertise.

This initiative has resulted in this book, which addresses the core topics of the learning sciences from a diversity of perspectives and by various leading scholars in the field. The sixteen chapters are grouped into the following six sections: 1) Learning and Development, 2) Learning, Reasoning, and Problem Solving; 3) Motivational and Emotional Aspects of Learning, 4) Learning and Assessment, 5) Learning and Technology, and 6) Instructional and Organizational Designs for Learning.

As a whole, these chapters address topical theoretical, methodological, and practical issues of the learning sciences. More specifically, they provide overviews of and commentaries on the past decades of research on learning and teaching from a perspective that integrates knowing, learning, instruction, and assessment and wherein core issues such as emotions and motivation, problem solving and reasoning, technology, and ways of, designing, implementing, and assessing new learning environments are embedded. Furthermore, the authors look also at the future of research on learning and instruction and its changing role in our fast developing knowledge society.

As such, this edited volume serves as a handbook not only for an international audience of researchers and (under)graduate students in the fields of educational psychology, instructional sciences, and corporate training, but also for various groups of professionals who are active on these fields like policy makers, instructional designers, teacher educators and corporate trainers.

Contents:

Prof. dr. dr. h. c. Erik De Corte: A Biographical Sketch xi

Part I Learning and Development

1 Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Learning in Early Childhood: Sites for Struggle - Sites for Progress / Elizabeth Wood, Neville Bennett 3

2 Mathematics in the Mind: Architecture, Development, and Educational Implications / Andreas Demetriou, Areti Panaoura 19

3 Attentional Processes, Abstraction, and Transfer in Early Mathematical Development / Erno Lehtinen, Minna M. Hannula 39

4 Examining Mathematics Learning From a Conceptual Change Point of View: Implications for the Design of Learning Environments / Stella Vosniadou, Xenia Vamvakoussi 55

Part II Learning, Reasoning, and Problem Solving

5 Reasoning with Mental Tools and Physical Artefacts in Everyday Problem-Solving / Roger Saljo, Ann-Charlotte Eklund, Asa Makitalo 73

6 Modelling for Life: Developing Adaptive Expertise in Mathematical Modelling From an Early Age / Wim Van Dooren, Lieven Verschaffel, Brian Greer, Dirk De Bock 91

Part III Motivational and Emotional Aspects of Learning

7 Motivated Learning: What Is it and How Can it Be Enhanced? / Monique Boekaerts, Rob Martens 113

8 Student Learning in Context: Understanding the Phenomenon and the Person / Noel Entwistle, Velda McCune, Max Scheja 131

9 The 'Unhappy Moralist' Effect: Emotional Conflicts between Being Good and Being Successful / Fritz Oser, Evi Schmid, Lisa Hattersley 149

Part IV Learning and Assessment

10 Educational Assessment: Towards Better Alignment Between Theory and Practice / James W. Pellegrino, Daniel T. Hickey 169

11 Learning and the Emerging New Assessment Culture / Filip Dochy, David Gijbels, Mien Segers 191

Part V Learning and Technology

12 The Difficult Marriage Between Education and Technology: Is the Marriage Doomed? / Gavriel Salomon, Dani Ben-Zvi 209

13 Computer Support for Collaborative Learning Environments / Heinz Mandl, Bernhard Ertl, Birgitta Kopp 223

14 E-pedagogies for Networked Learning / Robert-Jan Simons, Maarten de Laat 239

Part VI Instructional and Organizational Designs for Learning

15 From Individual Learning to Organizational Designs for Learning / Lauren B. Resnick, James P. Spillane 259

16 From Plato to Brown and Beyond: Theory, Practice, and the Promise of Design Experiments / Denis C. Phillips, Jonathan R. Dolle 277.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0080450210

OCLC:

69104351

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