ABOUT THE COURSE:The Child's Growth and Development Course in the NEPTEL Online Certification (NOC) program gives insight into the growth and development from conception to adolescence. It provides an opportunity for both students and professionals with a robust learning experience, and they can relate the theoretical aspects to their daily lives. It covers physical, language, emotional, psychosocial, cognitive, and personality development from infancy to adolescence. It also tells the crucial role of parents, family, home, teachers, and school in the child’s overall development. A deep understanding of a child's growth and development is considered essential for becoming a professional teacher/ teacher educator. As it allows teachers/ teacher educators to tailor their teaching methods/strategies to the specific needs and capabilities of children at different ages and developmental stages, making their instruction more appropriate & effective. The course also gives an insight into Tagore’s perspective on the child’s self-development.INTENDED AUDIENCE: UG/ PG/ Ph.D. Students from Humanities and Social SciencesPREREQUISITES: Any UG CourseINDUSTRY SUPPORT: Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai https://www.tissx.tiss.edu/courses/course-v1:TISSx-COOL+CGU01+2020_CGU_EN_01/about

Syllabus

Week 1: CONCEPT AND STAGES OF GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT

Concept of Growth and Development: Meaning, characteristics and nature of Growth and Development. Distinction between growth and development. Principles of Development. Educational implications of growth and development.
Stages of Development: Characteristics of Infancy, early childhood, late childhood, puberty and adolescence. Nature of the problems of adolescents. Importance for teachers and educators
Week 2:PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

Physical Development: Development of height, weight, organs, structure and proportion of the body from infancy to adolescence. Factors affecting physical development (heredity, nutrition, health, environment, etc.)
Week 3:MOTOR DEVELOPMENT

Motor Development: Principles and sequence of motor development. Development of muscle dexterity and co-ordination, gross and fine motor skills, handedness and leg skills.
Week 4:LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

Language Development: Behaviorist perspective- B.F. Skinner’s Theory of Language Acquisition. Nativist perspective- Noam Chomsky’s Theory of Language Acquisition. Educational Implications of the theories
Week 5:LANGUAGE AND THE BRAIN

Language areas in the brain. Role of the teachers in developing language and communication skills in children, with special emphasis on the children with Visual impairment, hearing impairment and speech difficulty
Week 6:SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Social Development: Pattern of social development during childhood, puberty and adolescence. Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development and its educational implications. Role of home, school and community in social development and adjustment
Week 7:EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Emotional Development: Characteristics and conditions of emotional development, Socio-cultural influences in emotional development. Role of family, school and community in emotional development
Week 8:MORAL DEVELOPMENT

Moral Development: Piaget’s theory of Moral development, Kohlberg’s theory of Moral Development and their Educational implications. Role of discipline, values, and role models in moral development, Influence of family, educational Institutions, culture, and environment in moral development
Week 9:COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Cognitive Development: Meaning and importance of cognitive development, Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development, Information processing approach & its educational implications, Role of the teachers and school in enhancing the cognitive development of the children.
Week 10:LEV VYGOTSKY’S THEORY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Cognitive Development: Lev Vygotsky’s Socio-cultural Theory of Cognitive Development- it’s educational significance. Role of family, school and community in the cognitive development of the child.
Week 11:INTELLIGENCE & CREATIVITY

Meaning and nature of Intelligence & Creativity, Nurturing creativity among children, role of teacher in promoting creativity among the children.
Week 12:PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

Development of Personality: Meaning of personality. Social, cultural and economical influences in the development of personality. Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytical theory of personality development and it’s educational implications. Role of home, school and community in the all-round development of the personality of the child