Human development is the stages of physical, social, mental and linguistic growth that occur from birth through age eight. The teachers need to know knowledge and understanding of young children characteristics and needs. Thus knowledge of child development is fundamental for all early age teachers and teacher educators. It enables teacher to implement developmentally appropriate practices with all children. This requires multiple areas of children’s development and learning including physical, cognitive, social, emotional, language and aesthetic domains. The course has been designed to include all these areas. Efforts were made to highlight all the important aspects of human development.
Unit-1 provides an overview of growth and development. It further clarifies that how the educational psychology has relevance for the classroom teacher in a number of ways. Unit-2 related to the information regarding human development. Unit-3 highlights different aspects of intellectual development. Social development discussed in unit 4. While unit 5 deals with emotional development. Moral development is also an important area of human development and this has been discussed in unit 6.
Language development is also very important in child development and unit 7 of the course dealt with in detail. Human learning and classroom environment discussed in unit 8. Areas of individual differences, causes of individual difference and measurement of individual differences discussed in Unit 9 of the course.
After successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:
1. Differentiate between growth and development
2. Explain different stages of growth and development
3. Explain the process of human development
4. Describe theories of intellectual development
5. Highlight different factors affecting emotional development of child
6. Explain different theories of moral development
7. Describe stages of language development
8. Create an classroom environment that promotes learning
9. Highlight the role of individual differences in learning and teaching.
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