Today was an interesting class on the Three Approaches to Instruction. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. In my opinion you cannot use one approach alone. For some younger age children the Humanistic and Cognitive approach have to be incorporated with the Behavioural. According to The Cognitive approach‚ one needs prior knowledge and experience. For example‚ to be able to teach a class of kindergartners or first graders a teacher can see that the students do not have much prior knowledge
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consequence‚ control himself when he must follow a rule of life." (Montessori‚ 1988a‚ p. 49) Obedience in many educational practices practiced in Asian like Chinese medium schools in Malaysia for example where the cane is freely used to discipline a child‚ advocates suppressing the child’s will to be substituted by the will of the teacher suggesting that one consider breaking a child’s will. Obedience says Montessori develops in stages as do other human characteristics. “In our children……it shows
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Weakness of rational choice approach when viewed from the lens of interpretive approach. Rinchen Dawa( 2013104522) Rational choice approach can be well understood from the book (The Logic of Collective Action‚ 1965) written by Olson where he argues that “rational‚ self-interested individuals will not act to achieve their common of group interests” (1965:2). Rational individuals will not act to achieve a common goal because he knows that his efforts will not have an effect on the situation
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Discipline and obedience are two words used to imply a strict way of learning. Montessori‚ on the other hand‚ saw these as a natural instinct that came from within. In this essay I intend to show that with the correct conditions the child can become self-disciplined and have the ability to obey without the need of force‚ reward or punishment as Montessori described. The understanding of discipline‚ according to the dictionary‚ is described as ‘the practice of training people to obey rules or a
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incorporate all five approaches and this is called the holistic approach. The holistic approach is the most successful way for secular psychologists to examine life. However‚ Christian
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The biological approach has shown to be one of the most scientific perspectives in psychology. When explaining human behaviour‚ the biological approach focuses on the role of genes‚ inheritance and biological processes‚ claiming that these are the things which determine behaviour. Additionally‚ the nervous system also plays an important role in explaining human behaviour. The biological approach arose out of attempts to understand two major issues: the relationship between the mind and body‚ and
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Behavioral Approach One approach in psychotherapy is the behavioral approach. The behavioral approach is one that focuses on methods intended for reinforcing wanted and eliminating unwanted behaviors. The behavioral approach is one that looks at the behavior rather than the underlying issue. Behavior therapy breaks down into two parts‚ a smaller defined idea of behavior therapy and behavior changes. Behavior therapy generally treats issues with Pavlovian or respondent conditioning‚
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The Reggio Emilia Approach‚ a constructivist approach‚ is related to constructivist theorists such as Piaget and Vygotsky. Piaget and Vygotsky offer theories on ways children think cognitively in a developmental manner. Piaget believes that a child is competent‚ when a child learns new things it just enhances their skills further. Vygotsky also believes that a child is competent‚ yet when they are educated it helps them in the process of the ZPD‚ zone of proximal development. According to Piaget
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A Cultural Approach to Communica0on CLA1201 SemA 2012 Department of Media and Communica0on City University of Hong Kong Recap of Last Week’s Lecture • We discussed the psychological effects of media on the audience • The media effects research tradi0on draws from psychology and sociology • It is generally
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subsequently be supplied. These are obviously extreme examples but it is not hard to realise that there are many instances were regulations protect societies from undesirable activities. Pro-regulation approach The pro-regulation approach mainly argues based on the criticism of a free-market approach as many would likely agree that markets are not effectively efficient and do not always operate in the best interests of society. Therefore‚ intervention in the form of regulation is necessary to govern
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