Pedagogy Flashcards
What is Pedagogy?
Pedagogy is the study of and practice of teaching. The study of how curriculum is taught and how feedback is measured to help benefit students.
Why is Pedagogy Important?
Strong Pedagogical approaches emphasise the importance of a supportive and engaging learning environment that is conducive to success
How does Pedagogy benefit Students?
Pedagogy helps students gain a deeper understanding of course material and helps challenge students to help them progress.
It can also help them understand why what they are doing (activity, textbook etc) helps facilitate their learning.
Well constructed pedagogy helps students move beyond basic comprehension towards analysis, evaluation and creation.
What are the main pedagogical approaches, from a teaching perspective?
Behaviourism, Liberationism, (Social) Constructivism and Cognitivism.
What is the Behaviourist approach?
Originates from a model of Psychology where Dogs were taught to respond to stimuli with an associated response. (also referred to as sign learning)
Pertaining to teaching, students are taught to respond to certain stimuli with a given action, it is centered around creating a culture of discipline.
By having set responses to particular stimuli, the learning is given/done for the student, requiring little thought or creativity.
Think about the teacher
How does Behaviourism look in the Classroom?
Learning is teacher centered, with a heavy focus on direct instruction. Students are given knowledge directly from the teacher, with tasks/assessments given directly related to this. Knowledge is on the exterior of the learner, thus needing to be given to them.
It focuses on the actions of the brain rather than the body
How does Behaviourism work for Students?
Lessons are driven by the teacher, and involve lecturing, modelling, demonstration and choral repetition.
These are all structured and led by the teacher. It incorporates a repetition of tasks to improve scores and better grade.
It provides a solid base for students by building strong habits and routines.
What is the Constructivist Approach?
Encourages students to create their own knowledge. Based on an idea that students learn best when they can explore and create their own knowledge
Students learn through experiences and reflection on such, thus dealing with much more physical ideas and less so ones which contend with symbolic meaning
How does it look for Teachers?
It requires strong classroom management and attention from the teacher to ensure that discussion/exploration from students stays relevant and pertinent to the task and overall objective of the lesson.
It is primarily about facilitating the learning rather than directly influencing students.
How does it look for Students?
It is a very creative and student driven approach which requires both engagement and enthusiasm of students to fully implement the ideas of exploration and precurement of ideas and concepts which they may deem relevant to them.
Students are able to create their own perceptions of knowledge and understanding through enquiry.
What is Social Constructivism
Approach supports the idea that students construct knowledge through conversation and interaction with tasks designed to achieve this.
Knowledge is co-constructed between learners and is thus reliant on the facilitation of this by the teacher.
It is important to encourage an environment of positive communication and interaction amongst learners.
What is Cognitivism
It is primarily concerned with knowing and thinking, with most of these theories following a basic pattern of; arousal of interest to eventual explanation of hypothesis and verification of ideas.
Cognitivism for the Student
Cognitivism relies on the intellectual standards of the students, with the deeper intellectual processes of the students being cognisant of their learning and being able to engage through the different progressive stages of learning to help their understanding and discussion of particular issues.
Cognitivism for the teacher
Through this approach teachers are required to provide the materials for which learning can be produced.
It is important to ensure that reality remains objective of the student and exists independently of the student with their understanding and perceptions of these phenomena developed and predicated by the tools provided by the teachers.
What is Liberationism
Liberationism comes primarily from Paulo Freire, it proposes the idea that the educational foundations which have supported society through several centuries are indeed constructed around limiting the oppressed and creating a framework where the oppressed stay as such and have become trapped by oppression and have become conducive to this continued entrapment in the bellows of society.
