Confessions of an educational psychologist

Confessions of an educational psychologist

I am always attempting to develop new and better ways to teach beginning teachers “all there is to know” about child development and special education. Over the years this process has lead me to feel more and more disillusioned. I am convinced that we need a total revamp of how we approach teaching educational psychology and propose that our discipline re-define what is considered to be essenti...

Some Experiences of an Educational Psychologist

Authorities. This arrangement provided an opportunity whereby Authorities doubtful of the scope and value of a psychologist's work might have his, or her, services on trial for a few months in their own area without the complications and commitments involved by themselves making a temporary or a permanent appointment. The plan had a wide appeal for, in a very short time, the psychologist's serv...

A Psychologist Looks at Educational Reconstruction

An Educational Psychologist ' s Perspective on Cognitive Neuroscience

Byrnes and Fox present a thoughtful article on a neglected but important topic for educational psychologists. Some major contributions are their emphasis on the need for consistency in educational theory and neuroscience research, the lack of automatic correspondence between neuroscience research and educational applications, the need for educator awareness of neuroscience research, the importa...

Confessions of an usability heretic

Una premessa: personalmente sono contro tutte le forme di fondamentali-smo, siano esse religiose, ideologiche, di qualsivoglia natura. Penso che il fon-damentalismo conduca ad una descrizio-ne della realtà estremamente limitata e scarna. Tende a rimuovere le diversità e le differenze, con lo scopo di cancel-lare la complessità, di nascondere le intricate trame delle attività e delle esistenze a...