week : 1 Introduction , Meaning and nature of psychology
INTRODUCTION OF PSYCHOLOGY and EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
•The word psychology is derived from Greek word psycho & logos.
•‘Psycho’ means “soul” and ‘logos’ means “science”. The science of soul.
•It is scientific because it is systematic study of observable events/behaviour.
•Today Psychology is scientific method of collecting data about individual and groups to analyse and predict their behaviour.
Educational psychology is nothing but one of the branch of applied psychology. It is an attempt to apply the knowledge of psychology to the field of education. In other words , educational psychology is the study of the experience and behaviour of the learner in relation to educational environment.
DEFINITIONS:
Crow and Crow (1973) put it as: “Educational Psychology describes and explains the learning experience of an individual from birth through old age”.
According to Peel (1956) “Educational Psychology is the science of education”.
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Course Material
- week : 1 Introduction , Meaning and nature of psychology
- week : 2 Methods of Educational Psychology
- Week : 3 Motivation Theory and Practice
- Week : 4 Intelligence and personality Theory
- Week : 5 Individual differences
- Week: 6 Educational psychology and Teaching
- Week: 7 Mastery Learning
- Week: 8 Mid Term Exam
- Week: 9 Constructivism, Expository Method of Teaching, Situated learning and Technology
- Week: 10 Inquiry problem based learning
- Week : 11 The Ecology Of Classroom Creating a Possible Learning Environment
- Week : 12 MAINTAINING A GOOD LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
- Week : 13 Environment, Need for better Communication, some guidelines
- Week : 14 Planning for effective Teaching
- Week : 15 Characteristics of effective Teachers , Teaching and learning about thinking and Concepts of Problem Solving
- Week : 16 Handling with individual differences in the classroom and Summery of chapter 1,3,7
- Week : 17 Final Term exam
- Chapters 17
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Hina Zahra
