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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Developing the Foundations to Help People Learn -- Why Young Children Learn So Quickly -- Can Education Become a Science? -- Learning to Understand and to Implement Ausubel's Assimilation Theory of Learning -- How Can We Encourage and Facilitate Meaningful Learning? -- The Invention of the Concept Map as a Knowledge Representation Tool -- Learning from Our Students How to Help People Learn to Learn -- Making Your Own Concept Maps |
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Criteria and Rationale for Making Good Concept Maps -- Definitions -- Rules for Making Good Maps -- Testing Our Tools and Ideas in Other Settings -- Learning How to Conduct and Interpret Clinical Interviews -- Helping People Create New Knowledge -- Chapter 2 The Invention and Use of CmapTools Software in Schools, Corporations, and Other Organizations -- A Series of Chance Events Changed the Course of My Efforts for Helping People Learn -- The Invention of CmapTools Software -- Getting Started Using CmapTools -- Helping People in the Business World Learn |
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Perfecting Strategies for Knowledge Elicitation and Application to Problem-Solving -- The Use of CmapTools Becomes More Widespread Internationally -- Helping NASA with a Research Program in Astrobiology -- Understanding Weather Forecasting: Our Early Work -- Understanding Electric Power Production and Transmission: A Training Program Developed for the Power Industry -- Helping to Keep America Safe -- Chapter 3 Building a Theory of Education -- Can Education Become a Science? -- Seeking a Better Work Setting for Building a Theory of Education -- Building a Research Team at Cornell University |
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Building a Solid Epistemological Foundation -- A First Effort to Build a Theory of Education -- Building a Human Constructivist View of Epistemology -- A Theory of Curriculum and Instruction -- Putting It All Together into a Coherent Theory of Education -- Theories Need to be Tested -- Surprising Comment from David Ausubel on My Work -- Chapter 4 The Design of Better Instructional Programs -- A Study of Exemplary School Science Facilities and Programs -- Learning from a Project with Lompoc, California Public Schools -- A Success Story in San Jose, Costa Rica |
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Learning from a Project in Panamanian Public Schools -- Creating a New Model for Education -- Chapter 5 A Look to the Future -- Looking Back to See Forward -- Lessons from the History of Education -- Seeking Ways to Enhance Social Responsibility -- A Study with College Chemistry Students -- A Lesson from My Work with the Schreyer Honors College at Pennsylvania State University -- Some Problems of Instruction and Assessment -- Creation of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) -- The No Child Left Behind Program in the USA -- We May Be at a Positive Turning Point in Education |
| Summary |
Educational theory and practice are historically influenced by the view of behavioral psychologists that learning is synonymous with behavior change. Helping People Learn argues for the practical importance of an alternate view, that learning is synonymous with a change in the meaning of experience. Based on the foundations of cognitive psychology and constructivist epistemology, this book presents a science of education that can guide the development of successful and meaningful educational programs. It serves as a sequel to the best-selling Learning How to Learn and includes ideas developed through the author's research and training programs conducted over the past thirty years. It emphasises the power of the knowledge representation tool 'concept maps', designed to facilitate meaningful learning and creativity. This book capitalises on the advances in technology and is of interest to students, professionals and researchers in educational psychology and learning theory |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 24, 2022) |
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Learning, Psychology of.
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Education -- Philosophy.
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Educational psychology.
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Climatic changes -- Social aspects
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Climatic changes -- Social aspects
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Education -- Philosophy
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Educational psychology
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Learning, Psychology of
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108625982 |
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1108625983 |
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9781108670197 |
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1108670199 |
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