Theories and Theorists

 General resources on learning and cognition

• Theory Into Practice Database
• Educational Psychology Interactive 
• Theoretical Sources [for learning and cognition]
• Funderstanding

 

Bandura

• Social Learning Theory
• Observational Learning

 

Behaviorism

• The Basics of Behaviorism
• About Skinner
• Operant Conditioning & Behaviorism
• Behaviorism History & John Watson
• The Behavioral System

 

Bruner

• Overview

 

Cognitive information processing

• The Cognitive System

 

Constructivism

• Building an Understanding of Constructivism
• Constructivism:About 70 articles written by a number of renowned constructivists
• Constructivism
  
• Constructivism

 

Ecological Systems Theory (Bronfenbrenner)

 

 

Ethics of Care (Gilligan)

 

Humanism (Maslow)

 

 

Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development

 

Multiple Intelligences (Gardner)

 

Piaget

• Biography
• Genetic Epistemology
• Jean Piaget Archives
• Cognitive Development Applications

 

Rogers

• Carl Rogers—Biography and other material, on site maintained by his daughter, Natalie Rogers (who is also trained as a therapist).
• Carl Rogers, Core Conditions, and Education–Site providing biographical information as well as examination of Rogers's ideas about education.
• Carl Rogers and Humanistic Education (Chapter 5 in Patterson, C.H. (1977). Foundations for a Theory of Instruction and Educational Psychology, Harper & Row.

 

Schema Theory

• Schema Theory (drawn from D’Andrade 1995)
• ASL - Abstract Schema Language

 

Vygotsky

• Social Development Theory
• Zone of Proximal Development
• Vygotsky
• Social Constructivism
• Vygotsky
• Vygotsky's Developmental Theories and the Adulthood of Computer Mediated Communication: A Comparison and an Illumination.