Psychological Perspectives of Education - शिक्षा के मनोवैज्ञानिक परिप्रेक्ष्य

Program Class: Diploma/ BA

Year: Second

Semester: Fourth

Subject: Education

Course Title: Psychological Perspectives of Education

Course Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this course, learners will be able to:

·      Define Education and Psychology.

·      Relate Education and Psychology.

·      Compare characteristics and needs of different stages of development.

·      Name different approaches of learning.

·      Distinguish between different psychological traits.

·      Identify Individual Differences.

·      Examine the importance of Mental Health.

·      Illustrate Teaching Learning Process.

Credits: 4

Core Compulsory

Max. Marks: –25+75

Min. Passing Marks: 33

Unit

Topics

I

EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY

• Psychology: Concepts and Scopes.
• Relations of Education and Psychology.
• Importance of Educational Psychology.
• Methods of Studying Educational Psychology

II

PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT

• Development/Meaning and Forms.
• Growth and Development.
• Stages of Development.
• Forms of Development – Physical, Mental, Emotional, Social, Motor Development, Language Development.

III

UNDERSTANDING THE LEARNING

• Meaning, Nature, and Factors Influencing Education.
• Learning Styles: VARK.
• Thorndike’s Laws of Learning.
• Transfer of Learning and its Classroom Implications.

Learning Theories:

• Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning Theory
• Skinner’s Operant Conditioning Theory
• Thorndike’s Trial and Error Theory
• Gestalt Theory and their Educational Implications.

IV

FOUNDATIONS OF BEHAVIOURS AND THEIR ROLES

• Instincts.
• Sensation, Perception, and Concept.
• Motivation.
• Memory.
• Attention and Interest.
• Thinking, Reasoning, and Imagination.
• Habit.
• Fatigue.

V

INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

• Meaning, Types, and Causes of Individual Differences.
• Individual Differences and Education.

VI

SPECIAL NEED LEARNERS

• Mentally Retarded.
• Gifted Children.
• Divyang (Handicapped).

VII

MENTAL HEALTH AND ADJUSTMENT

• Concept and need of studying mental health.
• Affecting Factors of Mental Health.
• Mental Health and Education.
• Adjustment: Meaning and Process.Bottom of Form

VIII

TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS

• Concept of Teaching.
• Relation between Learning and Teaching.
• Conditioning vs Teaching.
• The Objectives of Education is Learning.
• Role of Teacher in Teaching-Learning.