Childhood And Growing Up (बाल्यावस्था एवं विकास)

CHILDHOOD AND GROWING UP

UNIT 1

1)      Growth and Development: Meaning, principles and needs & its importance for child, stages of development and its characteristics, Role of teacher in fecilliatator of growth and development of child.

2)      Dimensions of individual Development: (Physical, social, emotional, moral, congnitive & language development and there implication of Piaget’s, erikson, Kohelberg & vygotsky.)

3)      The Effect of Different Agencies on Development of a Child: Home, School, Neighbourhood & Community, Interface between Home, Community and School.

UNIT 2:

1)      Understanding Process of Dynamic Social Maturity: Challenges to peace by increasing stress, conflicts, crimes, terrorism, violence and war resulting in poor quality of life. How do group and social conflicts influence school system and nurture a culture of peace.

2)      Educational and Social Change: Meanings, Aims and Challenges of Education in promoting the desire for social change.

3)      Equilizing Education Opportunities: Constitutional provisions, Role of school & Community. How do increase the education opportunity at primary and secondary level.

UNIT 3:

1)      Emergence of ‘Person’ and ‘Identity’: Understanding ‘Identity Formation’. Emergence of multiple identities in the formation of a person placed in various social and institutional contexts: the need for inner coherence; managing conflicting identities-

2)      Determinants of Identity Formation in Individuals and Groups: Social categories, such as caste, class, gender, religion, language and age. The influence of poor group to media messages, technology and globalization on Identity formation.

UNIT 4:

1)      Education and Democracy: Constitutional provision for education, Nationalism and Education for national integration and International understanding. Modernisation and Urbanisation need and measures to address them.