Psychology Of Development And Learning

This course is designed to orient the teacher students about the child development, personality and the process of Teaching and Learning. This course offers an overview of the study of childhood and adolescence. In the course, the concept of adolescence is situated in realistic and contextual frames. The course is organized around student-teachers developing capacities to look at, understand, interpret the universal notions about children and childhood, about growing up in realistic contexts and arriving at a critique of the notions of childhood and children and adolescents. The course can be taken by anybody at any level of teacher education and it can help the students to master all the basic ideas of Educational Psychology. The course is part of approved University Level curriculum for B.Ed. Course in all Indian Universities. The Course content is in tune with the Curriculum of Educational Psychology spread in first Two semesters of the 2 Year B.Ed. Curriculum as planned by NCTE in the national Level. The course is also designed in a way so as to help the teacher students of Elementary level also. Apart from that the modules included in the Course can be helpful even for the M.Ed. students. The course components detail various aspects of Child Development, Individual Differences, Learning process and ways to facilitate learning, Personality of the Learner and Various theories on Personality, Adjustment and Maladjustment, Mental Health, Exceptional Children and the importance of Guidance and Counselling to help the needy children. This course will enable student teachers to have a wider outlook on the realities of Classroom learning and Instruction. Once a student complete this course, he/ she can surely master in the Psychology of child development and Learning process.

COURSE LAYOUTWeek 1 First day : Module 1 Introducing Educational Psychology- videoThird day: Module 2 Introduction to Development and Principles of Development - videoFifth day : Module 3 Biological Aspects of Development- videoSixth day : Interaction based on the three Modules covered. Seventh day : Deadline for submitting assignments.

Week 2

First day : Module 4 An Introduction to the Concept of Developmental Tasks- videoThird day: Module 5 Adolescence- videoFifth day : Module 6 Personality: Concept and Definition- videoSixth day : Interaction based on the three Modules covered. Seventh day : Deadline for submitting assignments.

Week 3 First day : Module 7- Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory - videoThird day: Module 8 Gordon Allport: A Trait Theory of Personality- videoFifth day : Module 9 Carl Jung’s Analytic Theory of Personality- videoSixth day : Interaction based on the three Modules covered. Seventh day : Deadline for submitting assignments.

Week 4 First day : Module 10 Personality Theories of Cattell and Eysenck- videoThird day: Module 11 The Psychology Of Adjustment- videoFifth day : Module 12 Mental Health- videoSixth day : Interaction based on the three Modules covered. Seventh day : Deadline for submitting assignments.

Week 5 First day : Module 13 - Characteristics of integrated personality- videoThird day: Module 14 -Projective Techniques- videoFifth day : Module 15 Theories of Intelligence - videoSixth day : Interaction based on the three Modules covered. Seventh day : Deadline for submitting assignments.

Week 6 First day : Module 16 - Gardners’ Theory of Multiple Intelligences -videoThird day: Module 17 -Aptitude- videoFifth day : Module 18 - Creativity -videoSixth day : Interaction based on the two Modules covered. Seventh day : Deadline for submitting assignments

Week 7 First day : Module 19 - Exceptional Children- videoThird day: Module 20 - Gifted And Mentally Retarded Children- videoFifth day : Module 21 -Learning Disability- videoSixth day : Interaction based on the three Modules covered. Seventh day : Deadline for submitting assignments.

Week 8 First day : Module 22 - Types of Learning Disabilities-videoThird day: Module 23- Introduction to Learning and Factors affecting Learning-videoFifth day : Module 24 – Motivation- videoSixth day : Interaction based on the three Modules covered. Seventh day : Deadline for submitting assignments.

Week 9 First day : Module 25 - Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchical Theory of Motivation-videoThird day: Module 26 - Behaviourist Theories of Learning – Pavlov And Thorndike-videoFifth day : Module 27 - Behaviourist Theories of Learning – Skinner- videoSixth day : Interaction based on the three Modules covered. Seventh day : Deadline for submitting assignments.

Week 10 First day : Module 28 - Cognitive Theories of Learning - Gestalt Theory, Lewin’s Field Theory-videoThird day: Module 29 - Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Learning Theory- videoFifth day : Module 30 - Learning Theories of Bruner, Ausubel and Gagne- videoSixth day : Interaction based on the three Modules covered. Seventh day : Deadline for submitting assignments.

Week 11 First day : Module 31 - Social Learning Theory and Social Constructivism- videoThird day: Module 32 -Transfer of Learning-videoFifth day : Module 33 - Remembering/ Memory- videoSixth day : Interaction based on the three Modules covered. Seventh day : Deadline for submitting assignments.

Week 12 First day : Module 34 – Forgetting- videoThird day: Module 35 - Introduction to Counselling- videoFifth day : Module 36 - Introduction To Guidance videoSixth day : Interaction based on the three Modules covered. Seventh day : Deadline for submitting assignments.

Week 13 First day : Term end assessment