CC-01 Prathomik Sikshak Sikshane Sishu Siksha

Syllabus:

Unit-1: Perspectives in Development? ? ? ? ? ??

• Introduction to perspectives in development ? Concept of development (meaning, principles and objectives).


• Development as multidimensional and plural


• ?Development through the life span (stages)


• Developmental ways as continuous and discontinuous.


• Childhood as modern construct (knowledge- creator) in the context of poverty, globalization and modern culture


• Commonalities and diversities within the notion of childhood with reference to Indian context


 

Unit-2: Physical-Motor Development? ? ? ? ? ?

• Growth and Maturation


• Gross and fine motor development skills in infancy, pre-school children and elementary children


• Role of parents and teachers in providing opportunities for physical-motor development, for example, play.


 

Unit-3: Social Development

• Concept of socialization: Family environment, Parent-child relationships, Child rearing practices


• Separation of parents : Children in creches, orphanages etc.


• Schooling: peer influences, Teacher-child relationships, out of school experiences


• Development of children through socialization process


• Personality development? Freudian stages of development


• Psycho-social development? stages as proposed by Erikson


• Social theories and Gender development-meaning of gender roles, influences of gender roles, stereotypes and gender in playground


 

Unit-4: Self and Moral development? ? ? ? ? ? ?

• A sense of self : Self-description, self-concept, self-esteem, social comparison, internalization and self-control


• Moral development : perspectives of Lawrence Kohlberg


 

Unit-5: Emotional Development? ??

• Development of emotions and ability to regulate them (Love, affection, fear, anger, jealousy etc.)


• Development of emotions at different stages (pre-school, late childhood and pubertal stages)


• ?Development of emotions as continuous and discontinuous


 

Unit-6: Learning? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??

• Learning : Concept of learning (meaning, principles and objectives) basic theories of learning


• Learning : ideas of behaviorism


• Basic architecture of the mind (working memory, long term memory, attention, encoding and retrieval)


 

Unit-7: Cognition? ? ? ? ? ? ??

• Constructivism: introduction to the concept, Piaget?s theory: what is learning, structures and processes of cognitive development, children?s thinking, and implications for teaching learning.


• Vygotsky?s theory?introduction, the general genetic law, concept of zone of proximal development tools and symbols in development, implications for teaching.


• Individual and socio-cultural differences in cognition understanding learning difficulties, terms of exclusion and inclusion and impact.


 

Unit-8: Play? ? ? ?

• Meaning of Play: Characteristics, kinds and types of Play


• Functions of Play: Linkages with the physical, social, emotional, language, cognitive and motor development of children


• Cross Cultural & Socio-Economic differences in children?s play


• Games and group dynamics, rules of games and how children learn to negotiate differences and resolve conflict.


 

Unit-9: Language? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

• Perspectives in Language development (with reference to how children acquire language at early age) : Skinner, Social Learning Theory of Bandura and Walters


• The use of Language : Turn taking, interaction, conversations and listening


• Bilingual or Multilingual children: Implications for teachers, multilingual classrooms, storytelling as a pedagogic tool


 

Unit-10: Communication?

• How do children communicate?


• Socio-cultural variations in Language: Accents, difference in communication for a multilingual classroom.