STANDARD
Jerome Bruner (1915-2016) was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology. He is very widely quoted. I remember him suggesting that you can teach anything to anyone so long as you break it down in a sequence of small enough steps. This seems reasonable but it assumes suitable levels of motivation.
Educator Benjamin Bloom (1913-1999) has written, "After forty years of intensive research in the United States as well as abroad, my main conclusion is: what any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn, if provided with the appropriate prior and current conditions of learning".
He gave us Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in three domains - cognitive, affective and psychomotor. The cognitive domain had six groups - knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation (KCAASE).
I no longer remember the source of the curriculum developers basic structure: SCOPE (how broad and how deep), SEQUENCE (where to begin, go to next and finish) and PACE (how much to include in the time available)
MODERN
"Mother Nature made sure we could survive, but did not much care for us having a "good time" while doing so." Collard, Patrizia. The Mindfulness Bible: The Complete Guide to Living in the Moment) Several researchers have noted a negativity bias and pessimistic outlook. The wary survive.
"The pressure for novelty doesn’t let up. Our brains continually goad us to battle the monotonous and predictable, balancing what we know against newness. This is what keeps our species constantly tilting away from boredom and the status quo." (Eagleman, David. The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World.)
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