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Philosophy of Education

Perennialism

What is Perennialism? (Kharbach, M., 2024) https://www.selectedreads.com/what-is-perennialism/

Perennialism-A Concept of Educational Philosophy (Bansal, S., 2015) https://ijesrr.org/publication/27/IJESRR%20V-2-6-13.pdf

Perennialism (Young, A., 2023) https://zoneofeducation.com/perennialism/

Essentialism

The Case for Essentialism in Education (Bagley, W. 1874-1946) https://spu.edu/online/essentialism_in_ed.htm

Essentialism in Education (Young, A., 2023) https://zoneofeducation.com/essentialism-in-education/

Progressivism

Progressive Education: Why it’s Hard to Beat, But Also Hard to Find (Kohn, A., 2015) https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=progressive

John Deweys’s Theory-Learning by Doing (Main, P., 2023) https://www.structural-learning.com/post/john-deweys-theory

Reconstructionism

Social Reconstructionism in Education (Kharbach, M., 2024) https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2023/05/social-reconstructionism-simply.html

Social Reconstruction Ideology (2007) (author & book unknown) https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-assets/16266_book_item_16266.pdf

Theories of Education

Social Learning Theory

A Guide to Social Learning Theory in Education (Alvarez, C., 2020) https://www.wgu.edu/blog/guide-social-learning-theory-education2005.html

What is social Learning Theory About? (Lebow, H., 2021) https://psychcentral.com/health/social-learning-theory

Constructivism

What is Constructivism? (WGU, 2020) https://www.wgu.edu/blog/what-constructivism2005.html

Constructivism Learning Theory & Philosophy of Education (McLeod, S., 2024) https://www.simplypsychology.org/constructivism.html

Behaviorism

What is the Behavioral Learning Theory? (WGU, 2020) https://www.wgu.edu/blog/what-behavioral-learning-theory2005.html

Behaviorism (Brau, B., Fox, N., & Robinson, E.) year unknown https://edtechbooks.org/education_research/behaviorismt

Cognitive Development

Piaget’s 4 stages of Cognitive Development Explained (Cherry, K., 2024) https://www.verywellmind.com/piagets-stages-of-cognitive-development-2795457

Piaget’s Stages of Development (Ansorge, R., Gatta, F. & Gopal, A., 2024) https://www.webmd.com/children/piaget-stages-of-development

Critical Theory

Critical Race Theory (Movius, S.) year unknown https://opentext.wsu.edu/chapter/critic   al-race-theory/

Foundational & General

Abraham Maslow

Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) (goodtherapy.org, 2015) https://www.goodtherapy.org/famous-psychologists/abraham-maslow.html

Biography of Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) (Cherry, K., 2023) https://www.verywellmind.com/biography-of-abraham-maslow-1908-1970-2795524

Benjamin Bloom

B.S. Bloom (1913-1999) (education.stateuniversity.com) year unknown https://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1791/Bloom-B-S-1913-1999.html

A Conversation with Benjamin Bloom (Association for Curriculum and Supervision, 1979) https://files.ascd.org/staticfiles/ascd/pdf/journals/ed_lead/el_197911_brandt2.pdf

Blooms Taxonomy of Cognitive Learning Objectives (Adams, N., 2015) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4511057/

John Dewey

John Dewey: Portrait of a Progressive Thinker (Gibbon, P., 2019) https://www.neh.gov/article/john-dewey-portrait-progressive-thinker

John Dewey on Progressive Education (newlearningonline.com) year unknown https://newlearningonline.com/new-learning/chapter-2/supporting-material-1/john-dewey-on-progressive-education