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| Jerome Bruner | Discovery Learning. Scaffolding. Learner constructs new ideas or concepts based on knowledge or past experience. Student discovers information by himself or in a group. |
| Albert Bandura | Social, Observational learning. Occur through modeling or learning vicarously through others experiences. Person is able to learn more with another or in a group then she might do alone. |
| John Dewey | Learning through experience. Considered the father of progressive education practice that promotes individually free activity and learning through experiences. Teach children to be problem solvers by helping them learn to think. |
| Benjamin Bloom | Three learning domains; cognitive, performance or psychomotor and affective. Helps educators write lessons and objectives. |
| Erik Erikson | Erikson eight. 8 stages of human development based upon a crisis or conflict that a person resolves. |
| Carol Gilligan | Stages of the ethic of care. Questions male centered personality psychology of Freud and Erikson as well as Kohlbergs male centered stages of moral development. Moral development of woman. |
| Lawrence Kohlberg | Theory of world development. Male centered. |
| Abraham Maslow | Heirachy of needs. Certain lower needs must be met before higher needs. |
| Maria Montessori | Follow the child. 3 stages in the learning process. Introduce concept. process information. development understanding and knowing. |
| Jean Piaget | Stages of cognitive development. Sensory motor, pre operational, concrete operational, informal operational. |
| BF Skinner | Operant conditioning. Grandfather of behaviorism. Research in behavioral learning theory. Changes in behavior are the result of a persons response to stimuli. |
| Lev Vygotsky | Zone of proximal development. Social development theory of learning. Social interaction influences cognitive development. Students learn best in social context in which he learns from an able adult. |
| Howard Gardner | Theories of Multiple Intelligences. |
| Nitza Hidalgo | 3 levels of culture; concrete, behavioral, symbolic |
| Hidalgo Concrete Culture | Surface level aspects games, clothes, music and food |
| Hidalgo Behavior Culture | Define by social roles, language, and nonverbal communication, gender roles, family structure, political affilation. |
| Hidalgo Symboic Culture | Values and beliefs, how one defines him or herself, customs, religion, mores |
| Luis Moll | Funds of knowledge. Multicultral families have funds of knowledge and can become social and intellectal resources for a school. |
| David Ausuvel | Advance organizer. Design to help students to link their prior knowledge to the current lessons content. Semantic webs, KWL charts and concept maps |
| Bandura Modeling Theory | Attention, retention, reproduction and motivation. |
| Lee Canter | Assertive discipline. Clearly communicated expectations and follow through. Action/Consequences |
| William Glasser | Choice theory. aka control theory.Students who have a say in rules have greater ownership in their learning. |
| Jacob Kounin | With-it-ness. Teachers must have with-it-ness to manage their classes well. |
| Ivan Pavlov | Classical conditioning. Credited for the experimental basis of behavorist learning theories. |
| Edward Thorndike | Connectionism. Learning is a result of an association between stimuli and responses. Pre cursor to Skinners theory. |
| John B. Watson | Behaviorism. Human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning without appeal to thoughts and feelings. |
