pedagogy

Introduction
Teaching methods
- The teacher and the learner
  - General objectives of teaching
  - The general design of instruction
    - Foreknowledge about students and objectives
    - The teaching-learning situation
    - Assessment of results
- The organization of instruction
- Instructional media
  - Speaking-listening media
  - Visual and observational media
  - Reading-writing media
  - Computer-based instruction
Teaching theories: educational psychology
- Traditional theories
  - Mental-discipline theories
  - Naturalistic theories
  - Apperception theories
- Conditioning and behaviourist theories
- Cognitive theories
- Maturation and readiness theories
- Structural theories

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Marble bust of Aristotle with a beard and draped robe, showing detailed facial features and wavy hair, set against a dark background.

Jean Piaget, an older man with glasses and a pipe, wearing a suit and tie, looks toward the camera.

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Edwin A. Peel

Professor of Education, University of Birmingham, England, 1950–78. Editor, Educational Review. Author of The Psychological Basis of Education.

Edwin A. Peel

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pedagogy, the study of teaching methods, including the aims of education and the ways in which such goals may be achieved. The field relies heavily on educational psychology, which encompasses scientific theories of learning, and to some extent on the philosophy of education, which considers the aims and value of education from a philosophical perspective. In the act of teaching there are two parties (the teacher and the taught) who work together in some program...

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