Childhood and Growing Up

1. Understanding the Growth and Development of the Learner
1.1 Heredity and environment, social heredity - meaning, nature, importance in teaching learning process.
1.2 Growth, Maturation and Development of the learner.
1.3 Relationship between development and learning.
1.4 Facilitating holistic development: Implications for education (school, teacher, parents) w.r.t. to adolescence stage.
1.5 Understanding Growth and Development: Brain development and neuroplasticity in adolescence.
1.6 Physiological and Biological basis: Gender identity development and its implications for teachers.

2. Education and Individual Differences
2.1 Understanding the Nature and Scope of Individual Differences.
2.2 Types of Individual differences-I: Age, sex, intelligence, multiple intelligences, emotional intelligence.
2.3 Types of Individual differences-II: Socio economic background, interests, introvert and extrovert.
2.4 Dimensions of Individual Differences.
2.5 Implications for learning to facilitate holistic development.
2.6 Managing Learner Diversity in Classroom.

3. Education and Learner Diversity in Classroom
3.1 Diversity in learning styles
3.2 Howard Gardner's Contribution: Multiple Intelligences Theory - Implications for learning
3.3 I) Psycho-social and Moral Development: Erik Erikson’s stages of psycho-social development
3.4 II) Psycho-social and Moral Development: Kohlberg’s stages of moral development
3.5 Diversity due to multiculturalism
3.6 Learner Diversity in Classroom.

4. Contemporary Childhood and Emerging Issues
4.1 Concept of Contemporary Childhood
4.2 Emerging Challenges in Childhood and Adolescence
4.3 Impact of Technology and Digital Culture
4.4 Meaning and Implications of Political and social Dimensions on childhood and growing up
4.5 Meaning and Implications of Culture Dimensions on childhood and growing up
4.6 Impact of Media on childhood and growing up