An introduction to the psychology of the classroom / Charles Elmer Holley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holley, Charles Elmer, author.

Series:

PsychBooks Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child mental health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages).

Other Title:

An introduction to the psychology of the classroom

Place of Publication:

Boston : D.C. Heath and Co, [1930]

Summary:

"The teacher who comes to this book with the hope that he will find out exactly what to do in each of the varying circumstances of his day's work in school will be disappointed. But that teacher who comes to it with the hope that he may find in clear and readable language an interpretation of the contributions of psychology to the life and spirit of the classroom will not be disappointed. The man who studies to change practice thinks in terms of methods and is doing something that is valuable; but the man who studies to know what lies back of and gives meaning to practice thinks in terms of philosophy and is doing something that is still more valuable. Every survey of any field resolves itself in the final analysis into a consideration of fundamentals. This book is distinctly of this later kind. Although on every page and in nearly every paragraph one receives practical information of immediate value, still all these shifts and changes in methods and practices set forth are illustrative of modes of thought of more fundamental importance. Thoroughly modern and forward-looking in its point of view, the book lays a heavy hand upon a great mass of scientific studies and takes from them those facts and deductions that should constitute the common knowledge of every classroom teacher. It is the kind of book which should hearten the teacher who shrinks from the technical language of the typical psychological study; it is the kind of book which should be welcomed by those who sincerely desire to know what relation psychology has to the classroom"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

Introduction

Nature and nurture

Some inherited factors in the child's mental equipment : individual instinctive tendencies

The social instinctive tendencies

Some important characteristics of instincts and emotions

Individual differences

Emotional reactions and their place in the classroom

Major types of learning in the classroom

Some general aspects of human learning

The learning of habits in the classroom

Observational learning in the classroom

Ideational learning in the classroom

Behavior-pattern learning in the classroom

Mental conditions favorable to classroom learning

The theory of formal discipline

The measurement of mental abilities

Mental abnormalities and mental hygiene in the classroom.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.