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Educational Psychology and Guidance

The document is a course outline for an Educational Psychology and Guidance course delivered by the Virtual University. It includes 14 objectives for the course and outlines 45 lectures across 8 topics: introduction to educational psychology; child development; cognitive development; language and socio-emotional development; motivation; learning; theories of learning; and educational guidance. The topics will cover major theories and concepts in educational psychology and strategies for applying them to classroom settings and student learning.

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Educational Psychology and Guidance

The document is a course outline for an Educational Psychology and Guidance course delivered by the Virtual University. It includes 14 objectives for the course and outlines 45 lectures across 8 topics: introduction to educational psychology; child development; cognitive development; language and socio-emotional development; motivation; learning; theories of learning; and educational guidance. The topics will cover major theories and concepts in educational psychology and strategies for applying them to classroom settings and student learning.

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Dear Sir,

I am sending course outline for Educational Psychology and


Guidance to be delivered from Virtual University. This
completes my interest in three courses namely Educational
Psychology and Guidance, Experimental Psychology and
Educational Psychology. My one page CV is also enclosed.
Kindly acknowledge the receipt.

Regards,

Humair Hashmi
Educational Psychology and Guidance

Objectives: After completion of this course, the student will:

 Apply principles of psychology in class room settings


 Discover the new avenues of classroom teaching on the basis of
psychological theories better teaching-learning situation.
 Solve classroom problems using principles of learning.
 Understand motivation and strategies to increase motivation in
the classroom.
 Understand and use the function of guidance.

Contents

Lecture 1 – 5

1 Educational Psychology – Introduction

1.1 Brief historical background


1.1. Nature and scope of educational psychology.
1.2. Schools of psychology and their bearing on Education.
1.3.1 Structuralism
1.3.2 Functionalism
1.3.4 Behaviorism
1.3.5 Gestalt Psychology
1.3.6 Psychoanalysis
1.3.7 Humanist Psychology
1.3.8 Transpersonal Psychology
Lecture 6 – 9

2. Child Development

2.1 An overview of Child Development


2.2. Stages of Child Development
2.3 Principles of Child Development.

Lecture 10 – 14

3. Cognitive Development

3.1 The Brain


3.2 Piaget’s Theory
3.3 Vygotsky’s Theory
3.4 Applying Piaget and Vygosky’s theories in Classroom

Lecture 15 – 19

4. Language and Socio-emotional Development

4.1 What is language?


4.2 Biological and environmental influences
4.3 How language develops?
4.4 Social contexts of development
4.5 Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological theory
4.6 Erikson’s Life-Span Development theory.
Lecture 20 – 24

5. Motivation

5.1 Theories of motivation


5.2 Factors affecting motivation
5.3 Strategies to increase motivation in classroom

Lecture 25 – 28

6. Learning

6.1 Meaning and significance of learning


6.2 Factors affecting learning
6.3 Basic conditions of learning (contiginty)
6.4 Reinforcement, reward and punishment
6.5 Generalization
6.6 Learning styles
6.7 Learning difficulties
Lecture 29 – 33

7. Theories of Learning

7.1 Behavioral approaches to learning


7.1.1 Classical conditioning
7.1.2 Operant conditioning
7.1.3 Implications of conditioning for classroom instruction
7.2 Cognitive approaches to learning
7.2.1 Gestalt theory/insightful learning
7.2.2 Bruner’s theory of discovery learning
7.2.3 Bandura’s social learning theory
7.2.4 Implication of Cognitive theories for classroom instruction

Lecture 34 – 37

8. Educational Guidance

8.1 Explaining guidance


8.2.1 Orientation
8.2.2 Occupational information

Lecture 38 – 41

8.2.3 Counseling
8.2.4 Placement
8.2.5 Follow up
8.2.6 Referral services
8.2.7 Remedial service
Lectures 42 – 45

8.2.8 Functions of Guidance


8.2.9 Distributive function
8.2.10 Adjustive function
8.2.11 Adoptive function

Recommended Books

Arbuckle, D.S. (1961). Guidance and Counseling in the Classroom.


Boston: Allyn & Bacaon.

Gibon, R.L. and Mitchel M.H. (1999). Introduction to Counseling and


Guidance. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

Santrock J. W. (2006) Educational Psychology, McGraw-Hill Company.

Skinner, C. E. (2006) Educational Psychology, New Delhi: Prentice – Hall

Woolfork, C. (2006) Educational Psychology. New York: Allyn and


Bacon.

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