Introduction To Education 

EDF 1005

Unit I Lesson I

THE ORIGINS OF TEACHING -- J. McNair

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Lesson Objectives

The main objectives of this lesson are to introduce the students to the following topics and/or concepts:

• The Evolution of Cultural Behavior

• The Human Story

• How We Got Here

• Timeline of Discoveries of Human Origins

• A timeline of pre-history

• Early  Human Phylogeny

• Hominids 

• Hominids and Bipedal Historic Ancestors

• Lucy

• The Real Eve

• Glossary of  important cultural concepts

• Enculturation (1)(2)

• "Empathy" (1)(2)(3)

• Teaching Empathy (1)

• "Selective Exposure, Modeling, Reward and Punishment, Nurturance and Identification

• Sitting Quietly

• Facing Mt Kenya

• "Initiation", Rites of Passage and "Coming of Age"

Course Competencies

Listed below is a link to all of the competencies for EDF 1005:

Competencies