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G. Watson
What shall be taught in educational psychologyJournal of Educational Psychology, 17
E. Haggard (1954)
The proper concern of educational psychologists.American Psychologist, 9
HUGH PHILP .. The most difficult task of the teacher is not to teach, but to understand how, and by what method, the young child naturally learns." M. Arnold. For some little time we " educational psychologists" have felt occasional pricks of professional conscience about the subject matter of what we sometimes teach and have even, more or less facetiously, suggested that there is, nowadays, no such thing as "educational psychology". This is not to deny that psychologists should be educated-nor is it to refuse instruction in psychology to educators or, more specifically, to teachers. It is to ask, rather, whether there is any more to this subdiscipline, in which some eighty-four major texts have been published in English since 1920, than is contained in the unpretentiously titled" Talks to Teachers" of James? in 1899. What is " educational psychology?" This is not a barren kind of question to ask, since in Australia alone, a conservative estimate of 4,000 students in Universities and Teachers' Colleges are being subjected to courses bearing the name" Educational Psychology". In Queensland and in Western Australia there are Diplomas of Educational Psychology, and Melbourne boasts two Senior Lecturers, one in the Department of Psychology
Australian Journal of Education – SAGE
Published: Apr 1, 1958
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