Frances Davidson
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The work of Lev Vygotsky is increasingly cited as we reconsider the theory and practice of constructivist education. This program introduces the life, vocabulary and concepts of Lev Vygotsky. The video illustrates four basic concepts integral to his work: Children construct knowledge, learning can lead development, development cannot be separated from its social context, and language plays a central role in cognitive development. Elena Bodrova brings...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Other than Freud, no psychologist has been so discussed, critiqued and, at times, maligned as B.F. Skinner. Using both archival and new film, this video takes a new look at who the man was, and what he really said in his twenty books. Like other thinkers who broke new ground, Skinner had to invent his own vocabulary to describe the phenomena he was studying. In this film, his terms are introduced in context so the student understands how they were...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Treading new ground in the field of social psychology, Albert Bandura's work has become basic to an understanding of how social forces influence individuals, small groups and large groups. From his early BoBo doll experiments through his work with phobias, to his recent work on self-efficacy, Bandura has given us a sense of how people actively shape their own lives and those of others. Utilizing archival materials and newly shot visuals, students...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The opening line of this upbeat production is Teaching is both an art and a science. Filmed in three disparate but remarkable classrooms, it illustrates how effective learning takes place when teachers combine their knowledge of child development, subject matter, and cognitive psychology. The three teachers combine music and graphic art with reading, writing, and mathematics lessons in order to fully engage their student's minds.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The work of Jean Piaget has become the foundation of current developmental psychology and the basis for changes in educational practice. David Elkind, author of The Hurried Child and Miseducation, and a student of Jean Piaget, explores the roots of Piaget's work and outlines important vocabulary and concepts that structure much of the study of child development. Using both archival film of Dr. Piaget and newly shot sequences of Dr. Elkind conducting...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In part 1, Drs. Robert Karplus and Celia Stendler Lavatelli use Piagetian classification tasks to demonstrate how childrenÍs ability to use categories develops during middle childhood. In part 2, Children between the ages of five and twelve perform tasks dealing with quantity, length, area, and volume to illustrate the Piagetian concept of conservation. The children's differing approaches to the tasks are discussed by Dr. Robert Karplus and Celia...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Combining archival materials, a replication of a recent study with young children and frank interviews with contemporary college students, this production summarizes much of the current research about moral development. It leads students to experience the methodology involved in psychological research and to consider the factors involved as they face moral decisions in their own lives.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Best known for her pioneering work in the positive effects of enriched environments on brain growth, research she largely did with rats in the 1960's, Dr. Diamond has continued to teach and do research in the area of neurophysiology. Her research, and that of others, indicates that given the right conditions, the brain continues to grow all during life and not just in the early years. Dr. Diamond presents a summary of this research and its practical...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
According to Jean Piaget, intelligence develops in a necessary sequence of stages that are related to age. Piaget's theories have given us profound insights into the cognitive development of children. This knowledge in turn, provides a framework for understanding how children think and for planning educational strategies. Using structured interviews with children from four to nine years old, Dr. David Elkind illustrates the development of transitive...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
William James, more than anyone else, was responsible for introducing the wide range of topics that now comprise the broad field of psychology. In his magnificent text, The Principles of Psychology, he explored and expanded what was then known about neuroscience, cognition, emotion, perception, and behavior and left a legacy of inquiry into the workings of human experience that still fuels this social science. This film presents some of James's most...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Building on the ideas of Lev Vygotsky and Jerome Bruner, the consultants for this film worked with teachers in urban schools to foster self-regulated learning. This production presents both the theoretical underpinnings of their work and its results. Viewers visit busy classrooms where students are being helped to take responsibility for their education. The film offers useful viewpoints on constructivistic practice in elementary education.
12) Growing Minds
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Nothing in human experience is quite so astonishing as the enormous changes that occur during the five short years that transform the newborn into the actively curious, exploring kindergartner. This film examines the work of Lev Vygotsky and Jean Piaget, illuminating the similarities and differences of their contributions to our understanding of the cognitive development of young children. Dr. Elkind uses their research and his own work to look at...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Using the resources of the UCLA Brain Mapping Center, this film illustrates the development of neuroscience from its classical reliance on information from brain injuries and autopsies through the new insights discovered with electronic microscopes, EEG equipment, PET scans and MRI machines. Examples of current research that utilize these tools are presented including a study on the role of mirror neurons in autism and the mapping of a woman's several...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Born more than 25 years before Piaget or Vygotsky, Maria Montessori understood the constructivistic nature of all learning. As she observed children building their understanding of the world, she developed materials and approaches to education that are now used, in part, in most early childhood classrooms across the world. She realized the tremendous power of intrinsic motivation and sought to capitalize upon it, especially for children between the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For thousands of years, humans have asked if we perceive the world accurately through our senses. Because seeing is so important for our functioning in the world, efforts to understand how perceptions are generated have most often focused on vision. Based on current research in cognitive neuroscience, this film explores the challenge of explaining visual perception. The production includes an overview of the human visual system, illustrated with animated...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Three part series that is volume 2 in the Piaget set. In part 1, we explore the tasks Dr. Piaget and his collaborators developed to probe the thinking styles of secondary students. Drs. Robert Karplus and Rita Peterson conduct the interviews. In part 2, Jean Piaget presents his work on this intriguing subject at a conference in Kyoto in 1971. Carefully translated English subtitles accompany Dr. PiagetÍs presentation in French. Part 3 identifies the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
John Dewey wrote extensively about philosophy, psychology, education, political science, and the arts. In his very full 92 years of life (1859-1952), he not only wrote about the breadth of life, he participated in it as a teacher, social critic, political activist and involved family man. This fully produced video introduces students to his philosophy and his critical studies of education, the arts and the implications of democracy for the lives of...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The fascinating interplay of genetic predispositions and experience in the development of the brain after birth is demonstrated in this film produced at the Brain Development Laboratory at the University of Oregon. Three profiles of plasticity are depicted with compelling film sequences of behavioral, MRI and EEG research into the development of visual perception and language acquisition from infancy through old age. A congenitally deaf young woman,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
B.F. Skinner applied his unique behavioral principles to his own life. In this film, his daughter, Julie Vargas, gives us a tour of the basement study in which he wrote many of his books and articles. Skinner developed wonderfully ingenious gadgets designed to enhance his workspace, and he created clever ways of organizing the writing that was the central focus of the SKINNER WITH PIGEONS last decades of his life. Dr. Vargas and her sister also share...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Wisdom and integrity are something that other people may see in an old person, but it's not what that old person is feeling. That's what kind of roused me up to see what it was that old people do feel and what they have to face.... With the above quote, Joan M. Erikson begins a frank and personal re-examination of the last stage of the life cycle. She and her husband Erik Erikson formulated their eight stage life cycle theory during their middle...