Motivation, Affect and Identity
How many horses does ML own?
Two
A child who can think logically about concrete objects but not yet abstractly is in this stage.
What is the Concrete Operational stage?
This educator believed in educating the senses before the intellect.
Who is Maria Montessori?
This theoretical space supports respectful dialogue between worldviews without privileging one over another.
What is an ethical space?
The ability to recognize and manage ones emotion and those of others
What is emotional Intelligence
Piaget believed people learn through these two processes, which involve adjusting existing knowledge or fitting new information into it.
What are accommodation and assimilation?
Montessori maintained that optimal learning occurs when students experience this trio: control, order, and opportunities for discovery.
What is self-directed learning?
Indigenous pedagogy emphasizes this mode of knowledge transmission involving oral narratives and lived experience.
What is storytelling?
Mindset: The belief that abilities are static and cannot significantly improve.
What is a fixed Mindset?
This researcher developed the concept of emergent literacy, emphasizing learning that begins before formal instruction.
Who is Marie Clay?
Montessori used this metaphor to describe how young children unconsciously absorb knowledge from their environment.
What is the Absorbent Mind?
This Cree scholar described the 'ethical space of engagement' between societies with different worldviews.
Who is Willie J. Ermine?
Joy Stress & the Brain: Students are most likely to make connections and experience “aha” moments when they feel this.
What is Joy and Engagement?
According to Erikson, this stage is where adolescents form a sense of self.
What is Identity vs. Role Confusion?
Reggio Emilia rejects linear progression and instead conceptualizes learning using this recurring geometric pattern.
What is a spiral?
This concept refers to knowledge accumulated through generations of close environmental interaction.
What is Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)?
Personality and Learning: This preference pair describes whether people gain energy from the external world or internal reflection
What is Extraversion vs. Introversion?
According to learning theory, leveled books and manipulatives are aligned to this aspect of curriculum design.
What is developmental readiness?
In Rogers’ facilitation model, authenticity and empathy must be paired with this relational condition for learning to flourish.
What is respect and trust?
Leroy Little Bear emphasized that Indigenous knowledge systems are fundamentally organized around this core principle.
What is relationality (or interconnectedness)?