Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
- notice the characteristics of the various educational theories and recognize their importance and contribution to the learning process
- realize the relation among the various learning theories and their continuity through the implementation of ICT in the shool.
- identify the features of various theories of learning and recognize the importance and contribution to the process of learning,
- realize how the learning theories were influenced and modified after the integration of ICT and how this modifties the teaching approach and procedure,
- relate and connect the learning theories with the teaching strategies, practices and applications.
Course Content (Syllabus)
In this course are developed issues related to contemporary learning theories (behavorism, constructivism, sociocultural, social, information processing, technolgical etc) and is presented the implementation of learning principles in educational frames related to the teaching approach of Religious Education in schools. More specifically, are presented: the place of RE in education and the most important factors related to it. The curricula, the content of the course, the basic methodological preconditions for the instructional design of RE. The methodology, structure and conduct of teaching of RE. The integration and exploitation of the ICT applications (Information and Communication Technology) at all phases of the teaching approach of RE.
Keywords
leraning theories, constructivism, ICT, instructional design, Religious Education, Religion course, teaching principles, teaching models, educational technology
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
1. Μητροπούλου, Β. Οι ΤΠΕ στη διδακτική του μαθήματος των Θρησκευτικών, Όστρακον, Θεσσαλονίκη 2015
2. Θεωρίες μάθησης και Αγωγής, Όστρακον, Θεσσαλονίκη, 2015
3. Χ. Βασιλόπουλος, Σχολική Θρησκευτική Αγωγή, Εκδόσεις Βάνιας, Θεσσαλονίκη 2008.
Additional bibliography for study
1. Μητροπούλου, Β. Κοινωνικοπολιτισμικές Θεωρίες μάθησης στη διδακτική του ΜτΘ με ΤΠΕ, Όστρακον, Θεσσαλονίκη 2013
2. Μπικος, Κ. Ζητήματα Διδακτικής που θέτουν οι Τεχνολογίες της Πληροφορίας και των Επικοινωνιών, Ζυγός, 2012