Psychology, Education, Gods, and Humanity

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Laurence Simon

Book Code: C6058

ISBN: 0-275-96058-7

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96058-2

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232 pages, figures

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 7/30/1998

List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)

Availability: Print on demand

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Subjects:

Psychology » Psychology (General)

Description: Based on the author's experience, this discussion of psychology as a human science (rather than a natural science) outlines classroom techniques integrating narrative psychology and dynamic interpersonal psychotherapy as a means of teaching and demonstrating the core curriculum. The core theory integrates modern evolutionary psychology, cognitive constructivism--especially as represented by the works of Jean Piaget and Robert Kegan--social constructionism, and socially-oriented interpersonal psychoanalysis. The sections on teaching techniques blend the above into a theory of student-teacher interactions with Lev Vygotsky's theory of education as an interpersonal process.

The book is developed in four parts. Part I is a single chapter that discusses the inadequacy of the lecture method to teach courses in psychology; Part II, comprising of three chapters, lays the philosophical foundations of a postmodern view of psychology as a human science concerned with the phenomenological understanding of the development of human conscious experience and the adaptive process. Part III details the processes of cognitive, affective, and phenomenological change as developing individuals adapt to the physical, political, social, and cultural worlds that enfold around them. Part IV critiques traditional forms of education and describes a more individualized and humanized approach to teaching with its reliance on the student's written narratives. The final chapter is comprised entirely of fragments of student narratives that demonstrate the exciting outcomes of teaching human psychology in a humanistic fashion.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Defining an Educational Problem
Discoveries and Inventions
Stories and Lessons from Philosophy
Goals and Definitions
The Morality of Gods and Human Beings
Psychology, Biology, and Sociology
Stories and Lessons from Psychology
Toward a Theory of Human Adaptation
Adaptation and the Dynamics of Change
Individual Differences in Selves
The Politics of Experience and the Social Construction of Selves
Part IV: Stories and Lessons from Education
Changing Stories and New Lessons, Part I
Changing Stories and New Lessons, Part II
Stories Told and Lessons Learned: The Voices of My Students
References
Index

LC Card Number: 98-11136

LCC Class: BF77

Dewey Class: 150


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