6.scope of Educational Psychology

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SCOPE OF EDUCATIONAL

PSYCHOLOGY
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Explain the Scope of Educational Psychology
(U)
Synthesis the Scope of Educational
Psychology (S)
SCOPE OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
1. Learner: Infants/ child/ adolescence/ adult
 Growth and development:
 Physical development
 Emotional development
 Social development
 Intellectual development
 Moral/ religious development
 Personality development
 Interest
 Need
 Aptitudes
 Motivation
 Perception of self and others
 Career aspirations and development
2. Learning experiences/ what to teach:
Content/ curriculum and co-curricular
experiences to be provided according to the
developmental stages of the students.
3. Learning process:

 How students learn- Nature, laws,


principles, theories of learning.
 Remembering and forgetting.
 Transfer of learning.
 Styles of learning.
 Concept formation.
 Thinking, reasoning and problem solving.
 Ways and means of effective learning.
4. Learning environment: (Formally the
classroom) Physical and psychological
 Physical environment: Structure, size,
ventilation, lighting, furniture, storage facilities
etc
 Psychological environment:
a. Intellectual environment: Mental preparation of
the students for the acceptance of new content.
Proper and appropriate resources in the form of
teaching aids and audio visual aids should also be
available in the classroom.
b. Emotional environment: non- threatening but
cooperative for which democratic leadership should
be followed by the teacher. Sufficient scope be
provided for interaction and expression of ideas to
foster and develop interest, motives, social skills etc.
For creating and modifying the learning
environment the following should be considered:
– Classroom climate
– Institutional/ organizational climate
– Individual/self/supervised group study.
– Factors affecting attention.
– Role of rewards and punishment.
– Group behaviour and group dynamism.
5. Measurement and evaluation:
– learning outcomes
– Students readiness
– Collecting feedback
– Area of weakness for remedial teaching
6. Teacher: Pivotal to navigating the entire TLP.
– Personality traits and characteristics of a good
teacher.
– Duties and responsibilities of a teacher
– Measures of knowing and doing away with one’s
own conflicts, anxiety and tension.
– Teacher’s motivation, level of aspiration,
adjustment and mental health.

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