Sikhan Ebong Nirdesdaner Manastatwo (Psychology of Learning and Instruction)_Tripura University_2nd Sem_Interdisciplinary_ED101IOD

Authors: Dr. Pranab Kumar Chakrabarti, Dr. Debabrata Debnath, Dr. Pranay Pandey

TRIPURA UNIVERSITY (A Central University)
Compulsory Core Course, Code: ED-101ID
1st/2nd Semester, Credits: 3, Max. Marks: 100 (80+20)
PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION
Unit-l: Introduction to Educational Psychology
● Concept of Educational Psychology-its Meaning, Nature, Scope &
Need; Relationship between Learning and Psychology.
● Methods of Educational Psychology-basics methods & design in
studying learners behaviour.
● Applications of Educational Psychology in Teaching and Learning Process.
● Role of Educational Psychology in understanding Learner Differences
and Learning Needs.
● Individual differences among learner-concept, dimension and
educational implications.
Unit-II: Understanding the Learner and their Development
● Students as Learners-their Development and the Learning Process
● Human Growth and development-meaning and basic principles
● Stages of development-Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence
● Human development in the physical, social, emotional & cognitive domains
● Theories of development-Piaget’s Cognitive development, Vygotsky's
Socio-Cultural Perspective & Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development.
Unit-III: Theories of Learning and its Implication
● Learning-its meaning, nature and factors influencing learning
● Kinds or types of learning & need of theory of learning
● E. L Thorndike's theory or Trial & Error Learning
● Learning by conditioning:
(a) Classical Conditioning (Pavlov) (b) Operant Conditioning (Skinner)
● Learning by Insight (Gestalt)
● Discovery Learning (Bruner)
● Hierarchy of Learning types and condition (Gagne)
Unit-IV: Psychology of Instruction
● Psychology of Instruction: Its meaning, importance & difference
between teaching and instruction.
● Instructional objectives: Blooms Taxonomy (Cognitive Domain)
● Instruction for problem solving, creativity and Discovery learning
● Concept of instructional Technology and instructional media
● Concept and principles of Teaching, Criteria of good teaching
● Lesson Plan, Criteria of good lesson plan, steps and types of lesson
plan; Art of Questioning.