Sultan Kudarat State University Graduate School
Sultan Kudarat State University Graduate School
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The course is an advanced course on modern philosophies, psychological principles and
theories applied in educational settings. It includes the discussions and analysis of any teacher-student
relationship as positive as it can be so that the students can learn to the best of their potential. The
course will demonstrate a wide variety of methods and approaches for gathering knowledge,
presenting material and evaluating performance in an educational setting and encourages research
based teaching pedagogy.
OUTLINE
A. History of Educational Psychology – 1 reporter
B. Issues and controversies in educational psychology both in international
and national arena – 1 reporter
C. Philosophical foundations of Education
a. Realism – 1 reporter
b. Idealism – 1 reporter
c. Perennialism – 1 reporter
d. Naturalism -1 reporter
e. Essentialism -1 reporter
f. Humanism – 1 reporter
g. Existententialism -1 reporter
h. Progressivism -1 reporter
i. Constructivism – 1 reporter
j. Pragmatism – 1 reporter
k. Reconstructionism – 1 reporter
D. Cognitive Theories
a. Jean Piaget’ s theory - 1 reporter
b. Vygostky’s theory – 1 reporter
c. Bruner’s theory – 1 reporter
d. Dewey’s theory – 1 reporter
e Growth Mindset theory – 1 reporter
f. Positive Psychology theory– 1 reporter
g. Metacognition theory -1 reporter
e. Gestalt theory - 1 reporter
g. Tolman Purposive and Sign Learning – 1 reporter
h. Gagne’s Condition of Learning Theory – 1 reporter
i. Component Display Theory – I reporter
j. Cognitive Load Theory – 1 reporter
E. Social /Behavior
a. Operant/ Classical Conditioning – 1 reporter
b. Bandura – 1 reporter
c. Thorndike – 1 reporter
F. Psychosocial and moral theories
a. Erikson -1 reporter
b. Kohlberg – 1 reporter
G. Emotional theories
a. Goleman – 1 reporter
b. Multiple Intelligences – 1 reporter
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