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Psychology In Teacher Education: Behaviourism (the behaviourist approach to educational psychology), which originated with the work of Edward L.Thorndike and John B. Watson and culminated in that of B. F. Skinner, focuses on the control of behaviour through reinforcement.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau's naturalistic, child-centred approach to education and was acclaimed for developing a psychology of education.
Educational psychology began to emerge as an applied speciality withir.
At the elementary school level health instruction is organized and conducted by the classroom teacher. In secondary schools it has been traditional to assign the responsibility for health education to physical education teachers. A pattern frequently observed had one man functioning as teacher for physical and health education classes and coach for athletics. In the 1960's a trend developed to make health education a separate course, taught by a specially trained teacher.
As an educator Harris established the first public school kindergarten in the United States; broadened the elementary school curriculum; stressed the study of educational philosophy and educational psychology in teacher education; furthered the development of the high school; and raised the professional level of the school superintendency. As U. S. commissioner he developed the art of disseminating scholarly educational information, so that the U. S. Bureau of Education became a model for similar bureaus in England and other countries. |
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