Course Contents

EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY COURSE CODE: FC/B.ED-308 CREDIT HOURS: 3 UNIT DESCRIPTIONS UNIT 1: BASICS OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY • Nature of educational psychology • Scope of educational psychology • Difference between psychology and educational psychology • Conceptual approaches to psychology • Structuralism and functionalism • Cognitivism • Behaviourist • Humanistic • Constructivist • Gestalt psychology • Why do we study educational psychology? UNIT 2: LEARNING PROCESS • Definition of learning • How do we learn? • Learning Theories • Behaviourist Theory and critique of its use in the classroom/critique • Cognitive Theory and critique of its use in the classroom • Social Learning Theory and critique of its use in the classroom • Constructivist Theory and critique of its use in the classroom • Brain based learning and critique of its use in the classroom • Transfer of learning • Factors affecting learning UNIT 3: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES • Concept of individual differences • How do people differ? • Why do people differ? • Overview of physical, emotional, social, and mental differences • How to deal with individual differences? • Special children • Physical handicaps • Mental retardation • Emotional disturbance • Social and economic disadvantages • Gifted Learners UNIT 4: MOTIVATION • Needs and drives • Basic and acquired motives • How is a child motivated? • Techniques of motivation • Classification of human motives — Maslow’s need theory • Psychoanalytic Theory • Kohn’s Motivational theory TEXTBOOKS AND REFERENCES 3. Elliott, et.al. (2000). Educational Psychology: Effective Teaching, Effective Learning, 3rd Edition. McGraw-Hill. http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/elliott/book/today.htm 4. Gage, N. L., and David C. Berliner. 1998. Educational psychology. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 5. Santrock, John W. 2008. Educational psychology. 6. Eggen, Paul D., and Donald P. Kauchak. 2016. Educational psychology: windows on classrooms. 7. Duchesne, Susan, and Anne McMaugh. 2012. Educational psychology for learning and teaching. 8. Morse, William Charles, Glenn Max Wingo, William Charles Morse, and William Charles Morse. 1971. Classroom psychology: readings in educational psychology. Glenview, Ill: Scott, Foresman. 9. Fontana, David. 1988. Psychology for teachers. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education. 10. Ormrod, Jeanne Ellis. 2012. Essentials of educational psychology: big ideas to guide effective teaching. Boston: Pearson. Related websites: http://web.utk.edu/~rmcneele/classroom/theories.html http://teachingasleadership.org/sites/default/files/Related-Readings/LT_Ch1_2011.pdf http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/maslow.html

Course Synopsis

Describe psychology with major areas in the field, and identify the parameters of this discipline. Distinguish between the major perspectives on human thought and behavior. Appreciate the variety of ways psychological data are gathered and evaluated. Gain insight into human behavior and into one's own personality or personal relationships. Explore the ways that psychological theories are used to describe, understand, predict, and control or modify behavior

Course Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, Student Teachers will be able to: • describe different schools of thought and differentiate between psychology and educational psychology • define learning and explain different theories of learning and their application in the classroom • categorize individual differences based on physical, intellectual, emotional, and socio-cultural differences. • analyse the concept and theories of motivation • analyse the impact of educational psychology on the processes of teaching and learning.