Through this study-unit, course participants will cover:

–          learning from the perspectives of educational psychology and learning research;

–          the comprehensiveness and importance of learning and development in the framework of education and schooling;

–          the development and shaping of the brain and their dependence of social and cultural factors;

–          development and learning processes as closely intertwined phenomena;

–          socio-cultural and pedagogical views in early-childhood education, school, informal learning, and studying;

–          teacher’s own learning and development and classroom interaction;

–          insightful learning as well as activating and investigative working methods.