Educational Theorists

Dr. Deanna Stock

Chesapeake College
 

Assignment Objective

To research cognitive / linguistic theorists and relate the information to the 

process of reading.
 

Introduction

Learning what past theorists have contributed to the realm of language / reading development allows us to understand past trends as well as apply viable information to current educational endeavors. This WebQuest will assist each of you in examining credible links directed at the theorist you have been assigned. Please don’t stop with only your person though – examining links on all of those listed will enhance and deepen the learning process for you!
 

The Task
Y
ou will have to complete the following tasks:

  1. Examine links of every theorist listed.
  2. Research, in detail, the information links related to your assigned theorist, and use that information [as one valuable resource] to create your presentation.


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)

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

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)

 

For journal articles, search LRC education databases
 

Freire on the Informal Education Site

 

Freirean Pedagogy

Howard Gardner

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

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)

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

History of Education - Skinner

B.F. Skinner Foundation

Marie Clay

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

Reading Recovery Council of America - Biography of Marie Clay

 

 

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

Robert Gagne

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

The Psi Cafe - Gagne

Robert Gagne on Instructional Design

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

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

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)

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

Constructivist Theory - Bruner

Bruner on Informal Education Site

Benjamin Bloom

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

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

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

Social Development Theory - Psychology.org

Psi Cafe - Vygotsky

Carol Gilligan

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

Webster University - Carol Gilligan

Facing History and Ourselves - Gilligan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

David Rumelhart

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

Eminent Psychologists - Rumelhart

 

http://www.coe.uga.edu/echd/counpsy/eminentpsychologists_

new.htm#rumelhart

 

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

Esther Thelen

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

Dr. Thelen's Home Page

Psi Cafe - Thelen

 

Lawrence Kohlberg

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

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

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

University of Florida - College of Education

Michael Halliday

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

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)

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

His University of Pennsylvania Home Page

The Beck Institute
    

Albert Bandura

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

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

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

Edward Thorndike

American National Biography
(LRC database)

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

For journal articles, search LRC education databases


(Corbis Images)
(Gale Virtual Reference Library) Edward Tolman

American National Biography
(LRC database)

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

Elizabeth Loftus

For journal articles, search LRC education databases


http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/
Hermann Ebbinghaus (Corbis Images) Hermann Ebbinghaus

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

Jan Deregowski

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

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

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

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

Konrad Lorenz

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

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)

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

Martin Seligman

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

For journal articles, search LRC education databases


http://www.politicsoftrust.net/HTML/LIBRARY/ARTICLES/MartinSeligman.htm
Phil Zimbardo Holding a Mug (Corbis Images) Philip Zimbardo

Gale Virtual Reference Library (LRC database)

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

Wolfgang Kohler

American National Biography (LRC database)

For journal articles, search LRC education databases

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

 Education Databases / Other Education Links

* 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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