B.Ed. (Full Time) Learning and Teaching Syllabus - Mumbai University

Objectives

• To develop an understanding the concept of Learning.
• To analyze the factors affecting Learning.
• To analyze various theories of Learning.
• To apply the Cognitive Perspectives of learning in the learning process.
• To apply Constructivist perspectives of learning in the learning process.

Module 1: Understanding Learning 2 credits

Unit 1: Concept of Learning

• a) Learning & Teaching: Meaning ,Characteristics & Process
• b) Factors affecting Learning: Attention (Meaning, Types & Educational Implications) Motivation (Meaning, Types & Educational Implications), Maslow’s Theory of Hierarchy of Needs
• c) Learning Styles (Kolb’s Classification) & Multiple Intelligences (Gardener’s Classification): Concept & Educational Implications

Unit 2: Theories of Learning: (Principles & Educational Implications)

• a) Behaviorist Theories: Classical & Operant Conditioning
• b) Cognitive Theories: Bruner & Ausubel
• c) Social Learning Theories: Bandura & Vygotsky

Unit 3: Expanding Horizons of Learning:

• a) Learning for Transfer: Concept, Types (Low-Road or Substantive Transfer & High- Road or Procedural Transfer) & Promoting Transfer
• b) Group Dynamics ,Sociometry and educational Implications
• c) Bruce Tuckman’s Revised Model for Group Development: Five Phases & Role of Teacher

Module 2: Teaching: the Act and the Profession 2 credits

Unit 4: Teaching for All:

• a) Educational needs of differently abled learners: Characteristics & role of education (strategies) in case of:
• • Learners with learning disabilities
• • Learners with Hyperactivity & Attention Disorders
• • Gifted Learners
• b) Differentiated Instruction: Concept, Characteristics / Key Features & Strategies
• c) Multi-Cultural Education: Concept, James Bank’s Five Dimensions of MCE, Implications of MCE in the Indian Context

Unit 5: Teaching for Effective Learning

• a) Reflective and Critical Thinking: Meaning & Educational Implications
• b) Creativity and Problem Solving: Meaning, Process & Promoting
• c) Meta-cognition: Meaning, Components & Strategies

Unit 6: Teaching as a Profession

• a) Professionalism in Teaching: Concept & Principles; and Importance of Academic Freedom
• b) Evolving Roles of Teacher: Instructional Expert, Manager, Counselor and Practitioner-Researcher
• c) Professional Competencies for Classroom Management: Prevention, Intervention & Remediation:
• 1. Prevention: (Establishing & Maintaining Effective Learning Environment),
• 2. Intervention: (Rules and Consequences of Stopping Misbehaviour, the Need to Stop & Train),
• 3. Remediation: (Developing Student Responsibility & Self-Control, Remediating chronic Behavioural Problems, Gordon Model of Self-discipline

Module 3: Internal Assessment 2 credits

• Any two of the following tasks:
• a) Experimental Psychology: ( any one from the following)
• • Division of Attention
• • Group judgment
• • Suggestion
• • Perception
• • Transfer of learning-(Mirror Drawing / Cup & ball)
• b) Psychological Tests( any one from the following)
• • Sociometry test
• • Multiple intelligence test- Gardner
• • Learning Style Inventory- Kolb
• • Thinking Style

References

• o Adams & Hamm – New Designs for Teaching & Learning, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco
• o Agarwal. J.C- Essentials of Educational Psychology, Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd, 1995
• o Bailey et al (Editors), The SAGE Handbook of Philosophy of Education, SAGE
• o Bhatnagar Suresh & Saxena Anamika - Advanced Educational Psychology, R Lall Book Depot Meerut
• o Brubacher, Modern Philosophies of Education, 4th Ed., McGraw Hill Book Company
• o Cascio, Wayne F. & Aguinis Herman - Applied Psychology in Human Resource Management - Prentice-Hall of India, New Delhi.
• o Charles Skinner - Educational Psychology.
• o Chatteijee S. K. - Advanced Educational Psychology.
• Chauhan,S.S- Advanced Educational Psychology, Vikas Publication House, N.D.1990
• Crow L.D and Crow A “Educational Psychology”
• Dandapani, S - Educational Psychology
• Dandekar & Makhija - Educational Psychology
• Dandekar W. N. - Fundamentals of Experimental Psychology.
• Dash, RN & Dash,N- A Textbook of Educational Psychology.
• David W. Martin- Doing Psychology Experiments.
• Donna Walker Tileston – Ten Best Teaching Practices, 3rd Ed., Corwin
• E.G. Parameswaran & K. Ravichandra- Experimental Psychology. G
• Gage & Berliner – Educational Psychology (6th Ed.), Houghton Mifflin Co.
• Gardener, Frames of Mind
• Henson & Eller – Educational Psychology for Effective Teaching – Wadsworth Publishing Company.
• Hergenhahn, B. R. & Olson, Matthew H. - An Introduction to Theories of Learning - Prentice-Hall of India
• Jonassen & Land (Editors), Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments, Routledge
• Kakkar S. B. - Educational Psychology.
• Kenneth T. Henson, Ben F. Ella - Educational Psychology for Effective Teaching.
• Lahey, Benjamin- Psychology- An Introduction (Sixth Edition), Tarn McGraw Hill Publ.
• Lawson et al, A History of Psychology – Globalization, Ideas, and Applications, Prentice-Hall of India
• Lefrancois Guy - Psychology for Teaching.
• Lefrancois Guy R.: Theories of Human Learning
• Leo Postman, James Egan- Experimental Psychology.
• Mangal S. K. — Essentials of Educational Psychology, Prentice-Hall of India. New Delhi.
• Mangal S.K - Educational Psychology
• Mathur, S.S- Educational Psychology
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• Paulo Freire – Pedagogy of the Oppressed(2011)
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• Richardson, Constructivist Teacher Education: Building a World of New Understandings, Routlegde Falmer
• Robert A. Baron - Psychology.
• Robert S. Feldman- Understanding Psychology.
• Sharma, R.A- Essentials of Educational Psychology, R Lall Book Depot, Meerut, 1996
• Smith, Edward & Kosslyn, Stephen M. - Cognitive Psychology- Mind &d Brain- Prentice-Hall of India
• Stephen Klein, ‘Learning – Principles & Applications, 5th ed., SAGE.
• Sternberg, Thinking Styles
• Tileston, Donna Walker – 10 Best Teaching Practices (3rd Ed.), Corwin – A SAGE Co.
• Tiwari, Roma Pal - Experimental Psychology- A Dynamic Approach, VinodPustakMandir
• WaliaJ. S. - Foundations of Educational Psychology.
• WOOLFOLK, Anita – Educational Psychology (11th Ed.), Merrill – Pearson
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