EDUC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Underdetermination, Educational Psychology, Ethnography
5 Nov 2017
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Psychology: the study of human behaviour and experience. Educational psychology: the study of human behaviour and experience in educational settings: involves (1) the application of relevant psychological knowledge to educational theory and practice, and (2) the development of new knowledge and procedures related to education. Theory: collection of statements (propositions) that organize, summarize, and explain phenomena of interest. Proposition: statement that affirms or denies something such that the statement can be evaluated as being either true or false: two types of propositions (1) observational or empirical proposition and (2) logical or analytic proposition. Laws: highly accurate generalizable statements, experimentation, open system vs closed system, descriptive research, ethnography, underdetermination thesis. Principles: statements that are probable (given all things being equal); not certain, they"re probabilistic. Beliefs: (personal or naive theories), personally-held convictions or propositions. Theories: research never explains a theory; research provides evidence to support/does not support theory. Make sense in terms of consistency with other knowledge.
