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Paper-1 CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY Syllabus (Marks: 30)

1. DEVELOPMENT OF CHILD

- Development, Growth & Maturation
- Concept & Nature
- Principles of Development & their educational implications
- Factors influencing Development - Biological, Psychological, Sociological
- Dimensions of Development and their interrelationships
- Physical & Motor, Cognitive, Emotional, Social, Moral, Language relating to Infancy, early Childhood, late Childhood, Adolescence.
- Understanding Development - Piaget, Kohlberg, Chomsky, Carl Rogers and Erikson
- Individual differences
- Intra & Inter Individual differences in the areas of Attitudes, Aptitude, Interest, Habits, Thinking (Divergent & Convergent), Intelligence and their Assessment
- Development of Personality
- Concept, Factors effecting development of Personality, Child Rearing Practices, Self-Concept
- Adjustment, Behavioral problems, Defense Mechanisms, Mental Health
- Methods and Approaches of Child Development
– Introspection, Observation, Interview, Case study, Experimental, Rating Scales, Anecdotal Records, Questionnaire, Cross sectional and Longitudinal - Developmental tasks and Hazards

2. UNDERSTANDING LEARNING

- Concept, Nature of Learning
- Input - Process - Outcome - Factors of Learning
- Personal and Environmental
- Approaches to Learning and their applicability - Behaviorism (Skinner, Pavlov, Thorndike), Constructivism (Piaget, Vygotsky), Gestalt (Kohler, Koffka) and Observational (Bandura)
- Dimensions of Learning
- Cognitive, Affective and Performance
- Motivation and Sustenance -its role in learning.
- Memory & Forgetting - Transfer of Learning

3. PEDAGOGICAL CONCERNS

- Teaching and its relationship with learning and learner
- Learners in Contexts: Situating learner in the socio-political and cultural context
- Children from diverse contexts
- Children With Special Needs (CWSN), Inclusive Education
- Understanding of Pedagogic methods
- Enquiry based learning, Project based learning, Survey, Observation and Activity based learning, Co-operative & Collaborative learning
- Individual and Group learning: Issues and concerns with respect to organizing learning in classroom like Study habits, Self learning and learning to learn skills
- Organizing learning in heterogeneous classroom groups
- Socio-economic background, Abilities and Interest - Paradigms of organizing Learning
- Teacher centric, Subject centric and Learner centric - Theory of Instruction - Bruner
- Teaching as Planned activity
- Elements of Planning - Phases of Teaching - Pre active, Interactive and Post active
- General and Subject related skills, competencies required in teaching and attributes of good facilitator
- Learning resources - Self, Home, School, Play, Community, Technology
- Class room Management: Role of student, teacher, Leadership style of teacher, Creation of non-threatening learning environment, Managing behavior problems, Guidance & Counseling, Child Abuse, Punishment and its legal implications, Rights of a child, Time Management.
- Distinction between Assessment for Learning & Assessment of Learning, School based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: Perspective & Practice
- Understanding teaching & learning in the context of NCF, 2005 & Right to Education Act, 2009.