COURSE CONTENT
UNIT I - (15 hrs)
PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
1.1 Origin and meaning of Psychology
1.2 Branches of Psychology: Pure and Applied Psychology
1.3 Nature and scope of Educational Psychology in terms of Knowledge centeredness, Learner centeredness, Environment centeredness and Assessment centeredness.
1.4 Functions of Educational Psychology
UNIT II - (15 hrs)
APPROACHES AND METHODS IN EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY (15 hrs)
2.1 Relationship between Education and Psychology
2.2 Major Schools of Psychology: Structuralism, Associationism, Behaviourism, Gestalt, Psycho-analytic, Humanistic and Cognitive.
2.3 Methods of study in Psychology: Introspection, Observation, Survey, Interview, Experiment, Case Study.
2.4 Research methods in Educational Psychology: Descriptive, Correlational and experimental.
UNIT III - (15 hrs)
LEARNERS CHARACTERISTICS AND DEVELOPMENT (15 hrs)
3.1 Growth and Development – Meaning, Stages, Principles of Development, Developmental tasks.
3.2 Aspects of Development - Physical, Social, Emotional, Moral and Cognitive development patterns
3.3 Stages of Human Development during infancy and childhood – Cognitive development pattern
3.4 Neurological and other biological aspects of Psychological Development – Influence of Endocrine glands, Brain and nervous system on human development and behaviour.
UNIT IV - (15 hrs)
ASPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT
4.1 Social and Language Development –- Psycho-social development (Erikson) – Development of language – Views of Noam Chomsky and Vygotsky. Moral Development – Views of Kohlberg - Cognitive Development -Piaget and Bruner.
4.2 Role of family in development: Socialization during childhood and adolescence - problems and challenges. Home environment. Parenting, Emotional attachment towards family members. Resilience - stress management of adolescents.
4.3 Psychosocial dimensions of Learner – Social learning – Concept and importance – Factors affecting social learning – social conformity, social competency.
4.4 Violence in school – Types: Bullying, relational aggression, punishment, deforming, vandalism and their effects. Role of teacher in preventing violence.
UNIT V - (15 hrs)
LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION
5.1 Meaning, nature and factors affecting learning. Behavioural perspectives of learning – Views of Thorndike, Pavlov, Skinner and Hull - critical evaluation of theories on learning and instruction.
5.2 Cognitive perspectives of learning – Purposive behaviourism (Tolman), Gestalt view of learning, Meaningful verbal learning (Ausubel)
5.3 Constructivist perspectives of learning. Views of Piaget (Individual Constructivism), Vygotsky (Social Constructivism) and Bruner (Discovery learning)
5.4 Information processing framework of learning by Sternberg. Information processing theory of Donald Norman. Learning styles theory of Kolb.
UNIT VI - (15 hrs)
MOTIVATION, MEMORY AND FORGETTING (15 hrs)
6.1 Motivation – nature and types. Techniques for enhancing learner motivation. Theories of motivation (Maslow, McClelland) and their educational implications
6.2 Memory: Models of memory - sensory store, short term store and long term store – Memory processes – Constructive nature of memory – autobiographic memory, memory distortions, episodic and semantic memory – working memory: models of working memory
6.3 Forgetting: types, causes, curve of forgetting, theories of forgetting. Interference – proactive and retro-active
6.4 Strategies to enhance memory – Mnemonics. Transfer of learning – concept, types and educational implication
PRACTICUM (Any Two)
1. An article on any contemporary/ relevant issues regarding learners
2. A review of an article related to innovative practices in educationalpsychology.
3. Conduct a case study related to observed behavioural problems among learners.
4. Conduct a review of any book/ research report in educational psychology and prepare a report
- Teacher: Dr. Sibu G. Netto