(A). CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING:

(A). CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING:
Growth, development and maturation - their relationship with learning.
  Principles of development.  Impact of heredity and environment on development - nature-nurture controversy.  Socialization process of the child.
  Domains of development up to late childhood - physical, cognitive, emotional, social, moral and language.  Theories of Piaget, Kohlberg, Carol, Chomsky and Rogers in relation to child development.  Concept of child centric and activity based education.
 Individual differences - attitude, aptitude, interest and intelligence-their measurement.
 Theories of intelligence: Spearman, Guilford, Thurstone.
  Gender and education with special reference to child development.
 Mental health of the child - adjustment and behavioural problems during childhood.
 Understanding differences among the children based on language, caste, community, religion and gender.
 Distinction between assessment for learning and assessment of learning - school based assessment, continuous and comprehensive evaluation, perspective and practice.
 Preparation of appropriate tools for measuring learning outcome of the learners