REFLECTION #3
PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF
EDUCATION
For the duration of our discussion
with Ma’am Olga, I can see that she really had mastered her lesson for us.
It seems like she has put the lesson by heart.
As we were discussing about the
different Psychological foundations of Education, it was somehow clear for me
to understand her message.
I understood that Psychology is a
branch of Philosophy before and not the opposite. As time passed by, Psychology
became a new science, a new field to study further. We first talked about the
Behaviorism Psychology. For Behaviorists, the curriculum is in a step-by-step
manner.
First, Inputs are to be organized so that learners can experience
achievement in the development of mastering the subject matter. Second is the
Teaching-Learning process, the teacher to learner relationship. Third, the
output which can be seen in the results and it doesn’t end there, we have to
have an outcome in wherein we can find out what kind of citizens are we
shaping. This is the fourth.
The Behaviorist also adheres to the
Stimulus-Response method in gaining the attention of the learner. This means
one should stimulate through motivation or rewards to enable the positive
response of each learner.
Then, we also discussed about the Cognitive Psychology which
Jean Piaget’s Stages of Development makes the big impact for me. Throughout discussing
about the Piagetian Theory, the moment with the instructor became more interesting not hiding
the fact that as learners, we relate so much about the topic which we reviewed
the Stages of Development from Sensory-motor stage (babyhood) to the
Formal-Operational Stage which is the adulthood.
It was again a fun learning experience because we have been able to see the difference of each of the stages perceptive that in our stage, we are now able to have an abstract thinking.
