Theories

REQUIRED

  Vygotsky Social Constructivism

Three Attached documents - PowerPoint "Vygotsky & Applications", Cognitive Behavior Modification, and Venn Diagram on Reciprocal Teaching (RT) and Cognitive Behavior Modification (CBM).

    Two Videos

1. YouTube video on Vygotsky's Developmental Theory

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx84h-i3w8U&feature=related

2. YouTube video on Play: A Vygotskian Approach http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SpC0INWo3o

Erik Erikson: Personal and Social Development

Erikson:  A document attached, summarizing his major contributions.

Two Videos

1.  A Life's Work http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtlKXofxT-4

2. Pale Shade of Yellow, is an Asian girl's struggle with identity, the key personality developmental task in adolescence http://current.com/items/88983683_a-pale-shade-of-yellow.htm

About.com Click on all the links on Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development http://psychology.about.com/od/psychologystudyguides/a/eriksonguide.htm

 Piaget Cognitive Constructivism

Webquest Piaget Product and Presentation Due: Discovering and Uncovering Piaget, http://zunal.com/webquest.php?user=22695

 OPTIONAL

Geneva Gay mentions that Culturally Responsive Teaching is based on Situation Learning. Attached below is one of the classic articles on this theory, "Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning."

Here's a link to a FREE pdf file of Piaget's classic book on education, "To Understand is to Invent"http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000061/006133eo.pdf

Link to an explanation of Gallimore & Tharp's 4 Stage Model of the Vygotsky's ZPD http://www.igs.net/~pballan/ZPD%28Gallimore&Tharp,1990%29.htm

The Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education is widely recognized as one of (if not THE) best approaches in the world http://www.reggioemiliaapproach.net/ Emilia's background, approach and the contributions of a key founding theorist, Malguzzi, are described at http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/3176/Loris-Malaguzzi.html

My oldest granddaughter goes to one of these preschools and I spent a day there with her last November!

    Bronfenbrenner

This is an ecological theory of child development which we will not be studying this semester, but you might want to check out anyway because of its emphasis on socio-cultural influences on development. http://pt3.nl.edu/paquetteryanwebquest.pdf This is a graphic summary of the main components of his model.