THEORIES OF HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

This is an introductory course in Educational psychology.  The course exposes students to the nature of psychology, individual and social psychology, and the psychology of human learning. The first part deals with general aspects of psychology, while the second part deals with human learning as it relates to instruction. This course helps student teachers to understand the development of child and how this relates to its learning abilities. It covers the growth stages of a human being; factors influencing growth and development; cognitive, language and moral development and how these relate to learning.