Syllabus

Unit 1: Education and Psychology: An Introduction
Education as a Discipline, Education & Schooling Contributions of Psychology to Education ‘Child-centered’ and ‘progressive’ education

Unit 2: Human Diversity and Education
Differences in Cognitive Styles & Learning Strategies, Readiness for Learning & Classroom Achievement, Intelligence, Creativity & Personality Socio-cultural Differences: Gender, Socio-Economic Status, Regional, Ethnic & Linguistic Diversity.

Unit 3: Effective Teaching and Classroom Management
Characteristics of Effective Teachers Teaching Methods & Issues related to Technological Advances Discipline and Control Uses and abuses of psychological testing in education, The IQ controversy Issues related to Classroom Assessment & Evaluation: grades and grading, alternatives to traditional assessment

Unit 4: Exceptionality and Special Education
Conceptualizing Exceptionality: Categorization, Labelling and its educational implications Responsibilities of Teachers towards learners with Special Needs and Inclusive Education with a special focus on Individualized Education Plan (IEP) Responsibilities of Teachers towards learners with Diverse Needs, Issues related to Categorization & Labelling

Unit 5: Educational Psychology in Practice
Application of theories of development, learning, memory processes, motivation, intelligence and personality to teaching-learning process.

1.To prepare students understand the basic and applied aspects of Education from a Psychological Perspective.

1. Understand of the interface between education and psychology
2. Appreciate various issues and challenges that emerge with reference to the application of psychological ideas and theories in the discipline of education
3. Enable learners to deal with various problems and issues related to student diversity in a classroom
4. Use critical thinking skills to compare and contrast text-book applications of theories to real-life situations

A.Woolfolk, Educational Psychology., Pearson Education, 2013

N.L.Gage and D.C. Berliner, Educational Psychology (6th Eds.), New York: Haughton Mifflin, 1998

Lahey R.B. Graham J. E., An Introduction to Educational Psychology, 6th Ed., Tata McGraw Hill Publishers, New Delhi, 2000

2. Woolfolk, A., Educational Psychology: Active Learning Edition (12th)., Pearson, 2013