Contributions of social psychology to education.: Some foundations of the literature

Abstract

International audienceHow to improve the education system will always be a crucial issue. It is constantly questioned to gain improvements. Many fields have join the debate : cognitivists study the processes involved in memorization, sociologists try to depict the impact of social interactions and culture on learning, medicine intend to find and explain the limited abilities of human in learning from an anatomic point of view.This presentation aims to introduce how social education could contribute to the educational system if these were to be inserted in the teaching programs