Expanding knowledge-educational psychology
1. The specific research fields of educational psychology include learning psychology, teaching psychology, student psychology and teacher psychology. Educational psychology is a science that studies the basic psychological laws of middle schools and situational teaching in schools.
2. Educational psychology is an interdisciplinary subject between psychology and pedagogy, which mainly studies how to learn, how to teach and the interactive relationship between learning and teaching.
3. Educational psychology aims at studying students' learning psychology, such as the nature, process, conditions and motivation of learning, and creating effective teaching situations according to these studies. The specific research scope of educational psychology revolves around the interaction between learning and teaching.
4. The interaction between learning and teaching is a systematic process, which includes five elements: students, teachers, teaching content, teaching media and teaching environment, and is intertwined with three activities: learning process, teaching process and reflection process.
5. The research object of educational psychology is how to learn, how to teach and the interactive relationship between learning and teaching. It mainly studies students' learning psychology (the core of educational psychology).
6. Educational psychology is a branch of psychology, an interdisciplinary subject of pedagogy and psychology, and belongs to the category of applied psychology. Because educational psychology has fully demonstrated its application value in school education.
7. Many scholars in the field of psychology believe that educational psychology is an applied science. Actually, it is not. Although it has strong application value, it should also be a theoretical subject with independent content system and its own theoretical viewpoints and methods.
8. Although it has close contact and influence with other psychological disciplines, it is by no means a hodgepodge of various psychological knowledge.
9. The research methods of educational psychology, like other sciences, adhere to the principle of integrating theory with practice, and adopt observation, investigation and interview, natural experiments and laboratory experiments.
10, the more practical research method is to carry out experimental research, record and analyze psychological phenomena and trends, so as to accelerate the understanding of the characteristics and laws of students' psychological activities under the influence of education and teaching.