

General table of contents
Part One
Learning, planning and evaluation
Chapter One
- Learning: Comparative theoretical models
1.1
Learning: deinition and theoretical core references
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6
1.2 Social interaction in the learning process.............................................................
7
1.3 The relationship between learning and development ................................
11
1.4 The contribution of neuroscience to psychology and education ..........
12
1.5 The pattern of genetic psychology...........................................................................
15
1.6 Jean Piaget’s contributions to the knowledge about the child ...............
16
1.7 The hypothesis of evolutionary continuity ..........................................................
17
1.8 Adaptive behaviours and cognitive processes...................................................
20
1.9 The irreversible thinking and the reversible or operative thinking........
21
1.10 The hypothesis of egocentricity and infantile realism ..................................
23
1.11 J. Bruner’s cognitive model: the discovery of childhood.............................
25
1.12 Cyclical spiral learning: E. Erikson’s model ..........................................................
30
1.13 J. Baron’s model .................................................................................................................
33
1.14 D.A. Kolb’s model ................................................................................................................
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1.15 R.J. Sternberg’s model (E.L. Grigorenko and Sternberg).............................
35
1.16 H. Gardner’s model ............................................................................................................
36
1.17 Learning by conceptual maps: the theories of E. Damiano and J.D.
Novak.........................................................................................................................................
38
1.18 Subjectivity and emotional intelligence ...............................................................
42
1.19 Metacognition.......................................................................................................................
43
1.20 The learning environment ...........................................................................................
49
1.21 Learning as a democratic exercise...........................................................................
58
1.22 The role of media in learning.......................................................................................
62
1.23 Meaningful learning ..........................................................................................................
64