Theories of Intellectual Development and Education

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Course objectives: The aim of this programme is training for understanding and critical reflection on different theoretical standpoints about intellectual education and about the relation between intellectual development and education.

Course description: Modern theories of intellectual development and education: cultural theory, structural theory, theory of instrumental conceptualism. Recent research of intellectual development and its educational implications. Intellectual education and educational process; educational process research strategies. School, intellectual development and education; intellectual development, teaching and learning. Significance of motivation in the process of intellectual development and education; motivation models. Significance of educational achievements: recent research of educational achievements, knowledge and capabilities as results of educational process. Stimulation of intellectual development in children with different abilities: individualization and differentiation of educational process. Intellectual development and education of gifted children.

Learning Outcomes: Knowing and understanding the essence of understanding of the intellectual education and understanding of the relation of education and intellectual development in different theoretical orientations; the capacity for critical interpretation of different concepts of intellectual education.

Literature/Reading:

• Crain, W.C. (1980): Theories of development: concepts and applications. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
• Davыdov, V.V. (1986): Problemы razvivaющego obučeniя. Moskva: "Pedagogika".
• Đorđević, B. (2005): Darovitost i kreativnost dece i mladih. Vršac: Viša škola za obrazovanje vaspitača.
• Đorđević, J. (1997): Nastava i učenje u savremenoj školi. Beograd: Učiteljski fakultet.
• Iljenkov, E.V. (1975): O idolima i idealima. Zagreb: Školska knjiga.
• Ivić, I. (1992): Teorije mentalnog razvoja i problem ishoda obrazovanja, Psihologija, br. 3-4, 7-35.
• Kelly, A. & A. Washtell (1996): Developmental education in Russia, Early Child Development and Care, Vol. 124, 81-89.
• Kohlberg, L. & R. Mayer (1972): Development as the aim of education, Harvard Educational Review, Vol. 42, No. 4, 449-496.
• Langer, Dž. (1981): Teorije psihičkog razvoja. Beograd: Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva.