中美教育心理学教材比较与启示

教育心理学是教师教育的必修课程,是提升职前教师和教师教育者专业素质的关键所在,教育心理学教材更是其课程内容组成和实施的重要载体。本文选取中美两国各五本教育心理学教材,比较了其在知识结构、编排体例、呈现方式三方面的异同,总结出三条结论:宏观知识体系趋向一致,知识单元各具特色;编排体例随教学理念革新,形式灵活适学;插图案例活动种类丰富,种类背后仍存差异。在此基础上提出教材编写的三条建议:立足本土,夯实内容;网络为翼,丰富形式;以生为本,加强实践。

The Comparison and Inspiration of Chinese and American Educational Psychology Textbooks

Educational psychology is the required course of teacher education,and the key of promoting pre-service teachers and teacher educators’professional quality.Educational psychology textbook is the important carrier of teacher education curriculum composition and implementation.This paper chooses five Chinese and American educational psychology textbooks,discusses their similarities and differences in knowledge structure,writing pattern and presenting mode,and concludes the comparison results of the two countries’textbooks as following:macro knowledge structure trends to be similar while knowledge units have their own features;the textbooks are written according to teaching idea and suitable for learning;illustrations,cases and exercises are in abundant species,and there are differences behind the species.Based on this,the paper proposes future optimized approaches of Chinese textbooks such as improving the quality of content based on local conditions,playing the role of network and enriching the forms,and sticking to student orientation and strengthening the practice.