How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice

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Their storytelling philosophy is among the most effective tools we’ve invented for inspiring people at scale, which is why a popular documentary will spark more interest in a subject than the best textbooks ever will. Enjoyable learning begins with inspiration—both to get you started and to help you push through the struggles of knowledge acquisition. The less we insist on a justification for our curiosities, the more we can surrender to the engine of inspiration and let learning happen.

Citation: Chi X (2021) Book Review: How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice. The book brings everything into one place with many signposts to further reading, referencing and QR codes to video links. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. If you're looking for a way to introduce your colleagues to evidence-informed instructional practices, look no further.Take the assumption to its logical extreme and teachers face a dilemma of either locking students in a room and force-feeding them knowledge or letting them enjoy themselves, knowing they won’t learn anything. Part 5 elaborates on different social influences on learning, comprising situated cognition, cognitive apprenticeship, and communities of practice. Blinded by age, we can turn to cold rationality, valuing only what we can define and prioritize only what we can measure.

Just to list a few topics that demonstrate the wide range discussed in this book: novices versus experts, self-efficacy, problem-solving, feedback, learning context, educational myths, and many more. However, there is a reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence or knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs, or paradigms, which some scholars have critiqued as rooted in the scientific management and neo-managerial norms that seek to disseminate knowledge in formalized, routine, and procedural ways that lack appropriate grounding in the science of learning ( Myran and Sutherland, 2019). It’s no surprise that one of the most popular videos about him on YouTube has the words “fun” and “imagine” in the title.It is an endeavor to provide a roadmap to reach a broad consensus on a set of common, agreed principles. However, at the same time, the book allows you to pick a chapter of your choice and interest and dive in right away. Once a student sees the opportunity and enjoys the craft of writing enough to do it of their own volition, they’ll end up learning the granular rules that schools teach at the outset. This leaves space for teachers to gain an appropriate understanding of the theories behind their practice and proper measures for their effective teaching. It’s in the nature of bureaucracies to focus so much on the process that they forget about the end result.