Perspectives in psychology of education

Pre-requisites: For course attendance prerequisite are undergraduate and Masters courses: School psychology and the psychology of teaching and learning, or equivalent

Course objectives: The course should enable students for deeper understanding of new trends in psychology of education, to enable them for research, monitoring and design of educational, based on new knowledge in this area

Course description: The course discusses the main current issues in psychology of education at the deeper level: selfregulated and complex learning, emotion and learning, motivation, epistemological and other beliefs and attitudes of students, parents and teachers in relation to education, ensuring of education quality, characteristics and ways of improving the teaching profession, psychological research and education policy and other topics.

Learning Outcomes: After the course students will be able to research, monitor and design educational models, based on new knowledge from educational psychology

Literature/Reading:

• Darling-Hammond, L., Sykes, G. (1999): Teaching as the learning profession. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
• OECD (2007): Evidence in Education: Linking research and policy. Paris: OECD
• Kovač-Cerović, T. & al. (2004): Kvalitetno oobrazovanje za sve - izazovi reforme obrazovanja
• Kovač-Cerović, T., Vidović-Vizek, V., Powell, S. (2011). Parent participation in the life of schools. CEPS, Pedagoški fakultet, Ljubljana
• Preiss,D.D., Sternberg,R.J.(Eds) (2010): Innovations in Educational Psychology: Perspectives on learning, teaching and human development. New York:Springer
• Zhang,L, Sternberg, R.J.,Rayner, S. (Eds)(2012): Handbook of Intellectual Styles: Preferences in Cognition, Learning, and Thinking. New York: Springer
• Brophy, J.(2004): Motivating students to learn. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
• Daiute, C.(2010): Human Ddevelopment and political violence. New Yor: Cambridge University Press
• Saginor, N.(2008): Diagnostic classroom observation: Moving beyond best practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, SAGE
• Woolfolk, A. (2012): Educational Psychology. Pearson Education
• MacBeath, J. (2013): The Future of the Teaching Profession. Cambridge, UK