The Psychology of Choice [microform] / Thomas Lickona
- Bib ID:
- 5248485
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Lickona, Thomas
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED082830
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1971
- 19 p.
- Summary:
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A basic quality of the open classroom is that children are encouraged to make choices. Psychological rationales for allowing children to make choices are taken from psychological theory: (1) the objective of education, stated by Piaget and others, is to develop creative and independent thinkers; (2) children are intrinsically motivated to learn: (3) children can learn on their own, as demonstrated by language acquisition; (4) children learn best what interests them; (5) teachers become more effective if children help program and pace their learning; and (6) control over one's environment has beneficial affective results, including the reduction of anxiety. Evidence supporting the rationales is based on: (1) studies of classroom climate, in which emotional atmosphere of a classroom has been shown to affect learning and social behavior in the students; (2) the Coleman Report of 1966, which concluded that self-concept and locus of control factors influenced achievement much more than school resources; (3) childrearing studies; and (4) comparisons of achievements and attitudes of students from different kinds of schools. (DP)
- Notes:
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- Sponsoring Agency: Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC.
- Contract Number: OEG-0-70-1843.
- Educational level discussed: Early Childhood Education.
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- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- State Univ. of New York, Cortland. Coll. at Cortland
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1971
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