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The Unified Learning Model

How Motivational, Cognitive, and Neurobiological Sciences Inform Best Teaching Practices

  • First unifying synthesis of existing theories on learning
  • The authors are able to account for all of the known data about learning
  • Informs about ways to help students learn better

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Developing the Unified Learning Model

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
    2. The Unified Learning Model

      • Duane F. Shell, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Kathleen M. Wilson, Douglas F. Kauffman, Lynne M. Herr
      Pages 1-4
    3. Learning

      • Duane F. Shell, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Kathleen M. Wilson, Douglas F. Kauffman, Lynne M. Herr
      Pages 7-17
    4. Working Memory

      • Duane F. Shell, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Kathleen M. Wilson, Douglas F. Kauffman, Lynne M. Herr
      Pages 19-31
    5. Knowledge

      • Duane F. Shell, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Kathleen M. Wilson, Douglas F. Kauffman, Lynne M. Herr
      Pages 33-64
    6. Motivation

      • Duane F. Shell, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Kathleen M. Wilson, Douglas F. Kauffman, Lynne M. Herr
      Pages 65-84
    7. How the ULM Fits In

      • Duane F. Shell, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Kathleen M. Wilson, Douglas F. Kauffman, Lynne M. Herr
      Pages 85-111
  3. Applying the Unified Learning Model

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
    2. Classroom Applications Overview

      • Duane F. Shell, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Kathleen M. Wilson, Douglas F. Kauffman, Lynne M. Herr
      Pages 115-116
    3. Supporting Motivation

      • Duane F. Shell, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Kathleen M. Wilson, Douglas F. Kauffman, Lynne M. Herr
      Pages 117-134
    4. Efficient Instruction

      • Duane F. Shell, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Kathleen M. Wilson, Douglas F. Kauffman, Lynne M. Herr
      Pages 135-140
    5. Feedback and Assessment

      • Duane F. Shell, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Kathleen M. Wilson, Douglas F. Kauffman, Lynne M. Herr
      Pages 141-149
    6. A Focus on Thinking

      • Duane F. Shell, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Kathleen M. Wilson, Douglas F. Kauffman, Lynne M. Herr
      Pages 151-160
    7. Encouraging Self-regulation

      • Duane F. Shell, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Kathleen M. Wilson, Douglas F. Kauffman, Lynne M. Herr
      Pages 161-167
    8. Managing the Classroom Environment

      • Duane F. Shell, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Kathleen M. Wilson, Douglas F. Kauffman, Lynne M. Herr
      Pages 169-175
    9. Improving as a Teacher

      • Duane F. Shell, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Kathleen M. Wilson, Douglas F. Kauffman, Lynne M. Herr
      Pages 177-185
    10. Policy

      • Duane F. Shell, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Kathleen M. Wilson, Douglas F. Kauffman, Lynne M. Herr
      Pages 187-195
    11. Frontiers

      • Duane F. Shell, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Kathleen M. Wilson, Douglas F. Kauffman, Lynne M. Herr
      Pages 197-203
    12. Epilogue

      • Duane F. Shell, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Kathleen M. Wilson, Douglas F. Kauffman, Lynne M. Herr
      Pages 205-207

About this book

This is a book about how humans learn. Our focus is on classroom learning although the principles are, as the name of this book indicates, universal. We are concerned with learning from pre-school to post-graduate. We are concerned with most bu- ness, industrial and military training. We do not address how infants learn how to speak or walk, or how grown-ups improve their tennis swing. We do address all learning described by the word “thought”, as well as anything we might try to teach, or instruct in formal educational settings. In education, the words theory and model imply conjecture. In science, these same words imply something that is a testable explanation of phenomena able to predict outcomes of experiments. This book presents a model of learning that the authors offer in the sense of scientists rather than educators. Conjecture implies that information is incomplete, and so it surely is with human learning. On the other hand, we assert that more than enough is known to sustaina “scienti?c” model of learning. This book is not a review of the literature. Instead, it is a synthesis. Scholars and many teachers likely have heard much if not most or even all of the information we use to develop the uni?ed learning model. What you have not read before is a model putting the information together in just this way; this is the ?rst one.

Reviews

From the reviews:

“This is an excellent book about how learners learn and behave in a classroom and how this understanding about learning could be put to use by teachers for effective teaching. … the authors have successfully tied different ideas, concepts, and theories of learning into one model that is easy to understand even for those readers who do not have a background in education. I highly recommend this well-written and engaging book to all teachers, researchers, and students.” (Sandhya N. Baviskar, The American Biology Teacher, Vol. 73 (4), April, 2011)

“The writers of The Unified Learning Model (ULM) intend their book to satisfy classroom teachers as well as teaching and learning researchers. The book is divided into chapters within two major sections, developing the model and applying the model. … This book reinforced for me the value of modeling and practicing problem solving for students. … It gives the reader a variety of things to contemplate about memoryand learning, the most challenging and enjoyable being the ULM itself.” (Greg Diersen, The American Biology Teacher, Vol. 73 (4), April, 2011)

Authors and Affiliations

  • College of Education & Human Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, U.S.A.

    Duane F. Shell, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Kathleen M. Wilson, Douglas F. Kauffman

  • Educational Service Unit 6 (ESU 6), Milford, U.S.A.

    Lynne M. Herr

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Unified Learning Model

  • Book Subtitle: How Motivational, Cognitive, and Neurobiological Sciences Inform Best Teaching Practices

  • Authors: Duane F. Shell, David W. Brooks, Guy Trainin, Kathleen M. Wilson, Douglas F. Kauffman, Lynne M. Herr

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3215-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3214-0Published: 11 December 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9138-1Published: 02 November 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3215-7Published: 01 December 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 212

  • Topics: Educational Psychology, Learning & Instruction, Teaching and Teacher Education

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