The Social Side of School: Why Teachers Need Social Psychology |
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Authors: | Hunter Gehlbach |
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Institution: | (1) Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA |
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Abstract: | Teaching and learning are fundamentally social enterprises. In attempting to understand, explain, and predict social behavior,
social psychologists have amassed scores of empirically grounded, fundamental principles. Yet, many such principles have yet
to be applied to classrooms despite the social nature of these settings. This article illustrates how infusing novel concepts
from social psychology into teachers’ repertoires holds untapped potential to improve their pedagogy, ability to motivate
students, and capacity to enrich students’ understanding of subject matter. This article first examines three domains of social
psychology—social cognition, influence/persuasion, and interpersonal relations—and illustrates how applications of principles
from each domain could benefit classrooms. Next, two exemplars are presented to demonstrate the efficacy of past interventions
that are rooted in social psychological principles. Finally, pathways through which teacher educators can introduce new social
psychological concepts and applications to teachers are explored. |
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