This course focuses on child and adolescent development with emphasis on current research and theory on biological, linguistic, cognitive, social and emotional dimensions of the development. Further, this includes factors that affects the progress of development of the learners and shall include appropriate pedagogical principles applicable for each developmental level.
BASIC CONCEPTS AND ISSUES ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
TOPIC 1.1 - Learner-Centered Psychological Principle
TOPIC 1.2 - Human Development: Meaning, Concepts, and Approaches
TOPIC 1.3 - The Stages of Development and Development Tasks
TOPIC 1.4 - Issues on Human Development
DEVELOPMENTAL THEORIES ON CHILD AND ADOLESCENTS DEVELOPMENT
TOPIC 2.1 - Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory of Development
TOPIC 2.2 - Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development
TOPIC 2.3 - Vygotsky's Socio-Cultural Theory
TOPIC 2.4 - Erikson's Psycho-social Theory of Development
TOPIC 2.5 - Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development
TOPIC 2.6 - Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Theory
DEVELOPMENT OF THE LEARNERS AT VARIOUS STAGES
TOPIC 3.1 - Prenatal Period
TOPIC 3.2 - Infancy and Toddlerhood
TOPIC 3.3 - Early Childhood (The Preschooler)
TOPIC 3.4 - Middle Childhood (The Primary Schooler)
TOPIC 3.5 - Late Childhood (The Intermediate Schooler)
TOPIC 3.6 - Adolescents (The High School Learners)
LEARNING THEORIES AND PRINCIPLES
TOPIC 4.1 - Nature of Learning
TOPIC 4.2 - Thorndike's Connectionism Theory (Laws of Learning)
TOPIC 4.3 - Pavlov's Classical Conditioning (Pavlovian Conditioning)
TOPIC 4.4 - Skinner's Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
The Child and Adolescent Learning Principles References
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