Program Overview

M.Ed. Curriculum and Learning Design (CLD): EDUCLD6 - Cognitive and Social Cultural Foundations of Learning

Course Description

This course aims to develop in-depth, specialized, and advanced knowledge and comprehensive understanding of the major concepts in the discipline and between related fields. The students will critically evaluate and reflect on the cognitive and social cultural foundations concepts and their implications to educational practices in the UAE and international contexts. The students will also critically reflect on the complexity and challenges of designing innovative approaches in relation to learning theories and technology. Students will also have opportunities to discuss in-depth current development in theories of foundations of learning in relation to own professional practice for the improvement of teaching and learning.

Articles

• Peters, M. A. (2015). Socrates and Confucius: The cultural foundations and ethics of learning. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47(5), 423-427.
• Anderson, T. (2016). Theories for learning with emerging technologies. Emergence and innovation in digital learning: Foundations and applications, 35-50. Athabasca University Press
• Wang, Z., Chen, L., & Anderson, T. (2014). A framework for interaction and cognitive engagement in connectivist learning contexts. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 15(2).
• Anderson, B. A. (2016). The attention habit: how reward learning shapes attentional selection. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1369(1), 24-39.
• Schwartzstein, J. (2014). Selective attention and learning. Journal of the European Economic Association, 12(6).
• Harvey, A. G., Lee, J., Williams, J., Hollon, S. D., Walker, M. P., Thompson, M. A., & Smith, R. (2014). Improving outcome of psychosocial treatments by enhancing memory and learning. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9(2), 161-179.
• Salaberry, M. R. (2018). Declarative versus procedural knowledge. The TESOL Encyclopaedia of English Language Teaching, 1-7.
• Luft, J., Hill, K., Nixon, R., Campbell, B., & Dubois, S. (2015). The knowledge needed to teach science: Approaches, implications, and potential research. In annual meeting of ASTE
• Mesoudi, A., Chang, L., Dall, S. R., & Thornton, A. (2016). The evolution of individual and cultural variation in social learning. Trends in ecology & evolution, 31(3), 215-225.
• Heyes, C. (2017). When does social learning become cultural learning? Developmental Science, 20(2).
• Barkema, H. G., Chen, X. P., George, G., Luo, Y., & Tsui, A. S. (2015). West meets East: New concepts and theories. Academy of Management Journal, 58(2), 460.
• Goldie, J. G. S. (2016). Connectivism: A knowledge learning theory for the digital age? Medical teacher, 38(10).

e-Journals

• Advances in Cognitive Psychology
• Applied Cognitive Psychology
• Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology
• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
• Technology, Instruction, Cognition & Learning
• Cognition and Instruction

Books

• Goldstein, E. B. (2015). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience. Cengage.
• Baddeley, A. D. (2017). The concept of working memory: A view of its current state and probable future development. In Exploring Working Memory (pp. 99-106). Routledge.
• Contemporary Theories of Learning by Knud Illeris (Editor)
• Cognitive Psychology by Michael W. Eysenck; Mark T. Keane
• Cognitive psychology / by E. Bruce Goldstein and Johanna C. van Hooff.
• Cognitive Psychology by Robert J. Sternberg
• Cognitive Psychology by Ulric Neisser
• Group Cognition by Gerry Stahl; Kirsten A. Foot; Victor Kaptelinin; Bonnie A. Nardi
• Distributed Learning by Tasha Maddison (Editor); Maha Kumaran (Editor)
• Distributed Learning by Mary R. Lea (Editor); Kathy Nicoll (Editor)
• Psychology for the Classroom: Constructivism and Social Learning by Alan Pritchard; John Woollard
• Social Processes in Children's Learning by Paul Light; Karen Littleton
• Culture in School Learning by Etta R. Hollins
• Cultural Foundations of Learning by Jin Li
• Context and Cognition by Paul Light (Editor); George Butterworth (Editor)
• Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology by J. Michael Spector (Editor); M. David Merrill (Editor); Jan Elen (Editor); M. J. Bishop (Editor)
• Introduction to Theories of Learning by Matthew H. Olson
• Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills by Patrick Griffin (Editor); Esther Care (Editor)
• Mind in Society by L. S. Vygotsky; Michael Cole (Editor); Vera John-Steiner (Editor); Sylvia Scribner (Editor); Ellen Souberman (Editor)
• Social Learning by William Hoppitt; Kevin N. Laland
• The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences by R. Keith Sawyer (Editor)
• Exploring Working Memory by Alan Baddeley
• Cognitive Psychology by E. Bruce Goldstein
• Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills by Patrick Griffin (Editor); Esther Care (Editor)