Index
Child Development & Pedagogy
3. Principles of the development of children
4. Influence of Heredity & Environment
5. Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher, Parents, Peers)
6. Piaget Development Theory
7. Kohlberg Moral Development Theory
8. Vygotsky Cognitive Theory
9. Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
10. Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence
11. Multi-Dimensional Intelligence
12. Language & Thought
13. Gender as a social construct; gender roles, gender-bias and educational practice
14. Individual differences among learners
15. Distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based
Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice
16. Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing
learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.
Inclusive Education
1. Addressing learners from diverse backgrounds including disadvantaged and deprived
2. Addressing the needs of children with learning difficulties, ‘impairment’ etc.
3 Addressing the Talented, Creative, Specially abled Learners
Learning and Pedagogy
1. How children think and learn; how and why children ‘fail’ to achieve success in school
performance.
2. Basic processes of teaching and learning; children’s strategies of learning; learning as a social
activity; social context of learning.
3. Child as a problem solver and a ‘scientific investigator’
4. Alternative conceptions of learning in children, understanding children’s ‘errors’ as significant
steps in the learning process.
5. Cognition & Emotions
6. Motivation and learning
7. Factors contributing to learning - personal & environmental