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Educational Psychology

A recent criticism psychology and educational psychology claims that these disciplines face an epistemological dilemma. Analytic knowledge theories of educational psychology are necessary truths.

Royce said that there were three ways to classify the way we gain knowledge: personal experience, rationalizing, and metaphors. All knowledge gained can be classified under these three epistemologies, which are methods of acquiring knowledge. Subject could be almost completely under one method, or could be an equal balance of more than one.

Professor James T. Sanders of the University of Western Ontario does not completely agree with Royce, but wants to use Royce’s idea as a device form explaining some issues about the relationship of psychology to education.

The most common stereotype of educational psychology is mostly made up of empiricism, which is the belief that facts are gathered from experience or experiment.

The characterization of educational psychology bring preemptively empirical fact-gathering is connected with a stereotyped view about how psychology does, or should, contribute to education. This is why teachers, basically, teach students only facts.

Egan taught that certain claims can be reduced to logical, analytic truths by substituting synonymous phrases for one another. He points out that if we say we believe that more intelligent people learn faster than less intelligent people; the claim is plainly analytic. The claim can be seen as true if we concur that by “intelligence,” we mean, “the speed of learning.”

Educational psychology beliefs from half a century ago put education in danger by being based upon either true or false ideas. On the contrary, educational psychology is more about rationalizing. There is more to learning than correct and incorrect ideas.


Educational Psychology, James T. Sanders
http://www.jstor.org.libaccess.sjlibrary.org/stable/pdfplus/1495352.pdf