Educational psychology

Educational Psychology is a branch of psychology that deals with the description and explanation of the psychological components of education, teaching and socialization processes, including their forms and situations involved. The findings of educational psychology are trying to use to optimize pedagogical action or to its objective related change. The tasks and scope of educational psychology encompasses all social domains and institutions of education, training and socialization systems of different societies and cultures.

Issues of educational psychology

The educational psychology is such as the industrial and organizational psychology or clinical psychology a branch of applied psychology. Issues in educational psychology (eg, analysis of school performance ) are also within the scope of educational science, as the working with the canon empirical and quantitative research branch of pedagogy, treated; this development is ultimately triggered by the initiated by Heinrich Roth " empirical turn" of pedagogy.

Issues of educational psychology are - as is apparent already from the definition of this subject - the optimization of education, by promoting, teaching and teaching in preschool, school, college, adult education, as well as at home. Findings of educational psychology come in educational counseling, school psychology, and generally in counseling psychology used. This requires, inter alia, knowledge of pedagogical- psychological diagnostics, learning and instructional psychology, developmental psychology circumstances the child, the social-psychological factors in the contexts of the various institutions and the specific circumstances of educators, teachers and parents. Other topics of educational psychology are:

  • Second intervention, prevention, promotion: A further aspect of educational psychology form prevention and intervention, which are for students with learning disabilities or behavioral problems and also in the gifted education in pre-school support programs, funding for expression. Various aspects of learning as self-regulated learning and self-directed learning and different learning strategies are considered. In addition, part of this aspect of the development requirements of the curriculum and the multimedia learning. Conveying, prevention and intervention measures may also refer to educators (teachers, parents) relate (eg parent training programs to promote teacher health, to reduce teacher anxiety or to promote teaching skills ).
  • 3 Diagnosis: An additional aspect is the pedagogical- psychological diagnostics, dealing with learning controls as defined in criterion or social standards-related testing, both formal and informal way of school grading system in general and the evaluation of school performance comparison - and in the last decade also TIMSS PISA - busy. Furthermore, the success of a measure must be demonstrated by appropriate diagnostic measures at each intervention.

Important topics of educational psychology are:

  • Intelligence, talent, giftedness
  • Performance anxiety
  • Motivation, extrinsic vs.. intrinsically
  • Learning motivation, achievement motivation
  • Interpersonal perception,
  • Aspects of the school curriculum
  • Quality of teaching
  • Assessment of performance in school
  • Family, migrant children, the disabled, social disadvantage
Psychology of learning Evaluation (disambiguation) Social inequality
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