Educational Psychology / Unit 3 EDP 0202 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Grand Theories
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The idea
Educational psychology has favored grand theories of development, which describe change as general, universal and sequential, like a staircase climbed step by step.
In practice
A staircase model predicts every child passes the same steps; a kaleidoscope model expects many patterns.
Where people slip
Grand theories organize a great deal, but they risk overgeneralizing, confusing what happens to some children with what should happen to all.
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