PhD: Advance Educational Psychology (EDU-907)

This course is designed to achieve the following objectives:

  • Apply the insights of psychology to issues related to learning and Development
  • Systems or Schools of Psychology and their bearing on Education
  • Know the processes involved in student’s development, thinking and learning.
  • Comprehend the factors disrupting classroom and maintaining an effective learning environment
  • Understand the relationship between emotion, attitudes, society and student Learning.
  • Develop an awareness of important factors in cognition, behavior, attitude, emotion identifying the causes of behavior
  • Able to direct the student suitably towards learning and growth by motivating him effectively

CONTENT

Unit 1: Psychology; a science and a perspective

Unit 2: Educational Psychology

Unit 3: Human Development:

Unit 4:  Cognitive Development

Unit 5: Social Development

Unit 6: Moral Development

Unit 7: Emotional Development

Unit 8: Psychological Testing

DETAILED CONTENTS

 

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Contents

1

Unit 1: Psychology; a science and a perspective

  1. Psychology: Emergence as discipline
  2. Psychology and the scientific perspective; from science to practice
  3. Research Methods in Psychology
  4. Issues and Key perspectives of Modern Psychology
  5. Trends in Psychology for the new millennium

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Unit 2: Educational Psychology

  1. Educational psychology; scope and implications
    1. Educational Psychology and effective teaching interactions

3

Unit 3: Human Development:

3.1       Behaviorist approach,

3.2       Cognitivist’s  view

3.3       Constructivists view

3.3.1    Cognitive Constructivism

3.3.2    Radical Constructivism

3.3.3    Social constructivists view

4

Unit 4:  Cognitive Development

4.1       Basics of cognitive; Cognitive Neuroscience

4.2       Piaget and his work,

4.3       Genetic epistemology of Piaget: appreciation and critique

4.4       New Piagetian

4.5       Cognitivist views from Ausubel  to Bruner and Piaget

4.6       Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development

4.7       Information processing view of cognitive development(Attention, Sensation & Perception, Memory, Visual imagery, Language, Thinking, Decision making and Problem solving)

4.9       Meta-cognition (Learning to learn); cognitive vs meta-cognitive learning strategies

5

Mid Term Exams

6

Unit 5: Social Development

5.1       Concept and overview

5.2.      Ericson’s Psycho-social development views

5.3.      Social cognition: understanding the social world

5.4       Attitude and attitude change; Theories influencing attitude

5.5       Behaviour; individual and group behavior

5.6       Attitude behavior relationship

5.7       Teacher’s role in social development

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Unit 6: Moral Development

6.1       Concept and overview of moral development

6.2       Piaget’s moral development views and it educational implications

6.3       Kohlberg’s Moral Development theory and it educational implications

6.4       Gilligan and moral voices and Damon’s Moral Identity-

6.5       Models of the place of gender in Ethics

6.6       Teacher and moral development

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Unit 7: Emotional Development

7.1       Concept and overview of emotional development

7.2       Development of Social-Emotional Skills

7.3       Emotional development and learning

7.4       Temperament: Biological foundations and experiences

7.5       Emotional change

7.6       Measurement of Emotions: Emotional Quotient

7.7       Emotional Quotient (EQ) and Intelligence Quotient (IQ)

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Unit 8: Psychological Testing

8.1.      Concept and overview of Psychological Testing

8.2.      Historical antecedents of Modern testing

8.3.      Norms and meaning of test scores

8.4.      Ability testing

8.5       Personality testing

8.6  Ethical and social considerations in testing

8.7   Issues and trends in psychological testing

 

RESEARCH PROJECT /PRACTICALS/LABS/ASSIGNMENTS

  • Presentations
  • Handout readings
  • Group discussion
  • Projects
  • Assignments

 

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Sessional Marks: 20 marks

Mid Term Exams: 30 marks

Final Term Exams: 50 marks

 

Recommended Books

Duchesne, S & McMaugh, A. (2016). Educational Psychology for Learning and Teaching (5th Ed). Australia: Cengage Learning

Dai, D.Y & Sternberg, R.J. (2004).Motivation, Emotion, and Cognition: Integrative Perspectives on Intellectual Functioning and Development. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.,

Ormrod, J. E. (2003). Educational Psychology: Developing learners (4th ed.).New Jersey: Merrill Prentice Hall.

Baron, R. A. (2001). Psychology  (5th ed.).New York: Allyn& Bacon.

Suggested Books

Feldman, R. S. (2003).Essentials of Understanding Psychology (5th ed.).New York: Mc-Graw Hill Companies, Inc.

Gibb, S. (2002).Learning and Development. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Woolfolk, A. E. (1998).Educational Psychology (7th ed.). New York: Allyn& Bacon.

Mangal, S. K. (2005).Advanced educational psychology (2nded.).New Delhi: Prentice Hall of India Private Ltd.

Course Material

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