Lecturer
Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Graduate School of Education & Allied ProfessionsFairfield UniversityDepartment of Educational Studies and Teacher PreparationEducational Psychology: ED 442Course Description & Goals The overarching goals for this course are threefold: 1) to understand the psychological and cultural nature of teaching, learning and development; 2) to understand the challenges and possibilities of teaching and learning in today’s complicated and diverse society; and 3) to apply these understandings to the development of a stance towards teaching and learning. Taken together, these goals will enable you to engage in principled practice (Applebee, 1986), to draw on theories of development, motivation, and learning to guide your teaching decisions. By the end of the course, you should be able to offer sound, research-based rationales for your educational approaches. This course is not designed to provide you with a bag of tried and true teaching methods. Rather, it aims to help you to develop a teaching stance, your combined philosophy, attitude, core values and theories that shape how you encounter students and design for their learning (Fried, 1995).