Curriculum For RET in Education-UGB, 2018: Group-A
Curriculum For RET in Education-UGB, 2018: Group-A
Curriculum For RET in Education-UGB, 2018: Group-A
Group-A
Group- B
Educational Philosophy
Module –I: Philosophy of Education
Meaning, Nature, Scope and Significance of Educational Philosophy.
Concepts of Metaphysics, Epistemology and Axiology.
Relationship between Education and Philosophy.
Module – II: Indian Philosophy and Education
Nature of Indian Philosophy
Branches of Indian Philosophy- Nyaya, Samkhya and Vedanta, Jainism, and
Buddhism with special reference to Knowledge, Reality, Values and their
Educational Implication.
Islamic Philosophy of Education.
Module – III: Western Philosophy and Education
Western Schools of Philosophy- Idealism, Realism, Naturalism, Pragmatism,
Existentialism, Marxism, Logical Analysis, Logical Positivism, Logical
Empiricism and Positive Relativism with special reference to Knowledge, Reality,
Values and their Educational Implication.
Module-IV: Contributions of Modern Educational Thinkers
Sri Aurobinda
S. Radhakrishnan
J. Krishnamurthy
J. Dewey
B. Russel
A. N. Whitehead
Module-V: National Values
National Values as enshrined in Indian Constitution (Secularism, Democracy, and
Socialism) and their Educational Implications
Module-VI: Modern Trends in Educational Philosophy
Ivan Illich and De-Schooling Society
Paulo Friere and Conscientisation
Charles Wedemeyer and Independent Study
Learning: The Treasure Within (UNESCO, 1996)
Educational Psychology
Module – I: Schools of Psychology in Education
School of Psychology and their implication in Education:a) Behaviorism, b)
Gestalt, c) Cognitivism, d) Psychoanalysis, e) Humanistic, f) Constructivistic
School.
Module – II: Growth and Development
Concepts and Principles of Growth and Development.
Different aspects of Development :a) Physical, b) Social, c) Emotional, d)
Cognitive, e) Moral and Language Development and relevant theories.
Module – III: Personality and Adjustment
Personality - Concept, Process of Development and Personality Traits. Theories of
Personality by Eysenck, Erikson, Rogers and Big-5 and their educational
implications.
Adjustment – Concept and Nature. Different Maladjusted Behaviour – Causes and
Preventive Measures and Adjustment Mechanisms.
Module – IV: Intelligence, Creativity and Individual Difference in Classroom Diversity
Intelligence: Concept, Nature, and Theories – Cattell, Guilford, Sternberg &
Gardner. Educational significance of these theories. Measurement of Intelligence.
Creativity: Concept, Factors, Development of Creativity. Measurement of
Creativity. Creativity & Intelligence
Individual Difference – Concept, Nature and Factors.
Module – V: Learning
Learning: Concept, Nature, & Types.
Theories of Learning: Skinner, Hull, Tolman, Lewin.
Concept Learning - Bruner.
Social Learning – Bandura.
Constructivism – Piaget, Vygotsky.
Educational significance of the Theories
Module – VI: Factors affecting Learning
Influencing Factors of learning: Attention, Interest, Maturation and Motivation
and their relations with learning.
Theories of Motivation: Hierarchy of needs, Achievement motivation,Attribution
Theory and their Educational Implications.Factors affecting motivation.
Remembering & Forgetting. Information Processing Model.
Educational Sociology
Module – I : Education and Sociology
Educational Sociology: Meaning, Nature, Scope and Importance.
Relationship between Sociology and Education.
Socialization: meaning, Emile Durkheim’s Theory of Socialization, Education as
a process of Socialization.
Social sub-system: Meaning and theory of Talcott Parsons (Structural
Functionalism).
Module – II : Social Stratification and Mobility
Social Stratification: Concept, special features, role of education in social
stratification.
Social Mobility: Concept, special features, types, role of education in social
mobility.
Equality of educational opportunity: meaning, strategies taken.
Gender Discrimination: meaning, trends, strategies to overcome, and role of
education to overcome this discrimination.
Module – III :Social Change and Social Group
Social Change: Concept, Factors affecting social change, role of education in
social change
Social group: meaning, nature, types, educational importance of social group.
Education& Economic Growth: Concept of: Urbanization, Westernization, and
Sanskritization, Modernization & Globalization.; with special reference to Indian
Society.
Folkway and Mores, Customs, and Traditions: meaning and educational
significance.
Module -1V: Culture and Education
Culture: meaning, characteristics, factors affecting culture, education as a cultural
determinant
Cultural change: meaning, characteristics, factors affecting cultural change, role of
education in cultural change
Cultural Lag: meaning, Ogburn’s theory of cultural lag
Education for Multicultural Society