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The Maturational Theory of child development was introduced in 1925 [ 1] by Dr. Arnold Gesell, an American educator, pediatrician and clinical psychologist whose studies focused on "the course, the pattern and the rate of maturational growth in normal and exceptional children" (Gesell 1928). [ 2] Gesell carried out many observational studies ...
Student development theory refers to a body of scholarship that seeks to understand and explain the developmental processes of how students learn, grow, and develop in post-secondary education. [ 1][ 2] Student development theory has been defined as a “collection of theories related to college students that explain how they grow and develop ...
Critical pedagogy is a philosophy of education and social movement that developed and applied concepts from critical theory and related traditions to the field of education and the study of culture. [ 1] It insists that issues of social justice and democracy are not distinct from acts of teaching and learning. [ 2]
Constructivism in education is rooted in epistemology, a theory of knowledge concerned with the logical categories of knowledge and its justification. [3] It acknowledges that learners bring prior knowledge and experiences shaped by their social and cultural environment and that learning is a process of students "constructing" knowledge based on their experiences.
e. Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, as articulated in the second half of the 20th century by Erik Erikson in collaboration with Joan Erikson, [ 1] is a comprehensive psychoanalytic theory that identifies a series of eight stages that a healthy developing individual should pass through from infancy to late adulthood .
Learning theory describes how students receive, process, and retain knowledge during learning. Cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences, as well as prior experience, all play a part in how understanding, or a worldview, is acquired or changed and knowledge and skills retained. [ 1][ 2] Behaviorists look at learning as an aspect of ...
Cultural-historical activity theory ( CHAT) [ 1] is a theoretical framework [ 2] which helps to understand and analyse the relationship between the human mind (what people think and feel) and activity (what people do). [ 3][ 4][ 5] It traces its origins to the founders [ 6] of the cultural-historical school of Russian psychology L. S. Vygotsky ...
Online archive. Theory and Research in Education is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal that covers field of education. The editor-in-chief is Randall Curren ( University of Rochester ). It was established in 2003 and is published by SAGE Publications in association with The Slovene Society of Researchers in the School Field .