In this course, students will explore brain research to examine developments in the field of neuroscience, and how these new understandings about the brain and learning can influence classroom practices. Class participants will actively construct their own learning making it personally relevant to their various teaching settings. Topics to be explored include how the brain processes, stores, and retrieves information, art infused across the content areas, processes involved in higher order thinking and learning, transfer of learning, and critical thinking.
This course explores a foundational overview of peace psychology principles focusing on the nature, cause, intervention, and prevention of the determinants of peace. Students will analyze how peace psychology can be applied to a variety of interpersonal settings, and to promote conflict resolution and create non-violent social environments.
Students will explore various educational theorists such as Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Frobel, Montessori, Dewey, Piaget, and Gesell. Developmental Learning Theory, Behavioral Theory, Cognitive Theory, Holistic Theory, and Maturation Theory will be explored as students compare and analyze educational philosophies.