Educational Theorists

Dr. Deanna Stock

Chesapeake College

Resources Evaluation Conclusion

* Resources

Ausabel Bandura Beck Bloom Bruner Chomsky Clay Deregowski Ebbinghaus Festinger Freire Gagne Gardner Gilligan Halliday Kohlberg Kohler Loftus Lorenz Piaget Rotter Rumelhart Seligman Skinner Spearman Thelen Thorndike Tolman Vygotsky Zimbardo

Noam Chomsky

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

Encyclopedia Britannica Online(on campus only)

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Chomsky's Faculty Page at MIT

Chomsky Site at University of Chicago

Professor Noam A. Chomsky(Corbis Images)

http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/chomsky.home.html

Paulo Freire

http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)


Encyclopedia Britannica Online (on campus only)

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Freire on the Informal Education Site

Freirean Pedagogy

Howard Gardner

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

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Penn State Education Dept - Gardner

Professor Lamp

Photograph of Howard Gardner

http://www.pz.harvard.edu/PIs/HG.htm

B.F. Skinner

Psychologist B.F. Skinner (Corbis Images)

http://www.bfskinner.org/index.asp

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

American National Biography (LRC database)

Encyclopedia Britannica Online (on campus only)

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History of Education - Skinner

B.F. Skinner Foundation

Marie Clay

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Reading Recovery Council of America - Biography of Marie Clay

http://www.readingrecovery.org/sections/reading/marieclay.asp

http://www.psy.pdx.edu/PsiCafe/KeyTheorists/Gagne.htm

Robert Gagne

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The Psi Cafe - Gagne

Robert Gagne on Instructional Design

Jean Piaget

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

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Time.com - Piaget

Piaget.org

Jean Piaget, Swiss Psychologist (Corbis Images)

http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/piaget.html


http://www.psy.pdx.edu/PsiCafe/KeyTheorists/Bruner.htm

Jerome Bruner

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

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Constructivist Theory - Bruner

Bruner on Informal Education Site

Benjamin Bloom

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Bloom's Taxonomy

Taxonomy of Learning and Benjamin Bloom

Well-well?

http://www.lilydalewest.vic.edu.au/bloom2.htm

http://www.psy.pdx.edu/PsiCafe/KeyTheorists/Vygotsky.htm

Lev S. Vygotsky

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Social Development Theory - Psychology.org

Psi Cafe - Vygotsky

Carol Gilligan

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

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Webster University - Carol Gilligan

Facing History and Ourselves - Gilligan

http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/gilligan.html

http://www.coe.uga.edu/echd/counpsy/ eminentpsychologists_new.htm#rumelhart

David Rumelhart

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Eminent Psychologists - Rumelhart

http://www.indiana.edu/~psych/faculty/thelen.html

Esther Thelen

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Dr. Thelen's Home Page

Psi Cafe - Thelen

Lawrence Kohlberg

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

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Summary of Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development

Stages of Moral Development

http://www.psy.pdx.edu/PsiCafe/KeyTheorists/Kohlberg.htm

No photo available at this time

David Ausabel

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University of Florida - College of Education

Michael Halliday

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Centre for Language and Communication

http://jppsg.ac.uk/encap/clcr/gordon/langdes.html

http://mail.med.upenn.edu/~abeck/

Aaron Beck

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

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His University of Pennsylvania Home Page - The Beck Institute

Albert Bandura

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

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Bio on Emory University Web Site

Professor Bandura in his office at Stanford University.

http://www.coe.uga.edu/echd/counpsy/eminentpsychologists_new.htm

http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/people/spearman.gif

Charles Edward Spearman

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Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

Edward Thorndike

American National Biography (LRC database)

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

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(Corbis Images)

(Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Edward Tolman

American National Biography (LRC database)

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

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Elizabeth Loftus

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http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/

Hermann Ebbinghaus

(Corbis Images)

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

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Jan Deregowski

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http://www.holah.karoo.net/deregowski.htm

http://psychlops.psy.uconn.edu/founders/Pages/Image7.html

Julian Rotter

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

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Konrad Lorenz

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

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Portrait of Nobel Prize Winner Konrad...

(Corbis Images)

http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~dornhoef/pioneers.htm

Leon Festinger

American National Biography (LRC database)

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

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Martin Seligman

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

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http://www.politicsoftrust.net/HTML/LIBRARY/ARTICLES/MartinSeligman.htm

Phil Zimbardo Holding a Mug

(Corbis Images)

Philip Zimbardo

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

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Wolfgang Kohler

American National Biography (LRC database)

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Wolfgang Kohler

http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/psych26/history.htm

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* Evaluation

You will be evaluated on how well you incorporated the information found within these links into your presentation and on how well you are able to discuss the information with the class.

* Conclusion

In learning what past theorists have contributed to the realm of language / reading development you should be able to understand past trends as well as be able to apply viable information to current educational endeavors. These links should have enhanced and deepened your understanding of language / reading development.

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