Calvary University

 Faculty of Education

Learning Theories
    An Educational Perspective

Edition 3

Dale Schunk
0-13-010850-2
Hardback
522 pages
2000

Brief Description

Core text for Learning Theories in education and Human Learning courses in psychology.

This text provides succinct, complete overviews of all current behavioral and cognitive theories and presents their implications for learning and instruction. Also covers motivation and self-regulation and contains a new chapter on development and learning. In addition to theory, it gives equal treatment to the applications of principles and concepts of teaching and learning. Ideal for students with minimal course background in psychology, this text illustrates abstract concepts with specific examples. Students can also gather helpful information from a detailed glossary with more than 300 technical terms and an extensive bibliography with more than 1,100 references.

Features

• Offers informative discussions on prominent historical views of learning.
• Takes a cognitive perspective when addressing the topics of social cognitive theory, information processing, attention, perception, and memory (storage, retrieval, forgetting).
• Covers topics that are relevant to learning such as motivation, self-regulation, and instruction.
• Presents key information regarding reception learning, production systems, connectionist models, metacognition, and concept learning.

New to this Edition

Includes detailed case studies in the introductory chapter that are referenced in subsequent chapters as learning principles and concepts.
Introduces a chapter, Development and Learning that covers the following topics Theories of cognitive development, the child study movement, types of developmental theories, developmentally appropriate instruction, constructivism, and transitions in schooling.
Demonstrates how to take developmental levels into account in teaching and learning
Expands coverage on goal setting, self-efficacy, memory and forgetting, and skill acquisition.
Provides exciting new information on social studies learning (history, geography), technology and instruction, and self-regulation.
Features many new references throughout the text.

Contents

1. Learning: Introduction, Issues, and Historical Perspectives.
2. Behavioral Theories.
3. Social Cognitive Theory.
4. Information Processing.
5. Cognitive Learning Processes.
6. Development and Learning.
7. Content-Area Learning.
8. Motivation.
9. Self-Regulation.
10. Instruction.

Glossary.
References.
Author Index.
Subject Index.

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