Topics:

• Child Development (Primary School Child) 15 Questions • Concept of development and its relationship with learning • Principles of the development of children • Influence of Heredity& Environment • Socialization processes: Social world & children (Teacher
• Parents
• Peers) • Piaget
• Kohlberg and Vygotsky: constructs and critical perspectives • Concepts of child-centered and progressive education • Critical perspective of the construct of Intelligence • Multi-Dimensional Intelligence • Language & Thought • Gender as a social construct; gender roles
• gender -bias and educational practice. • Individual differences among learners
• understanding differences based on diversity of language
• caste
• gender
• community
• religion etc. • Distinction between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning; School-Based Assessment
• Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation: perspective and practice • Formulating appropriate questions for assessing readiness levels of learners; for enhancing learning and critical thinking in the classroom and for assessing learner achievement.