CONTENTS:- The Nature of education; Facts and principles of growth; Maturation and learning in growth; The practical control of learning; Personality and social attitudes; Personality and the problems of adjustment; Adjustments to Individual differences.
DESCRIPTION
Teaching to a great extent depends upon the knowledge of psychology by the teachers. The knowledge about the social background and family of the child is highly necessary. The student's development in terms of physical development, intellectual development and emotional development is to be understood by the teachers. The students need balanced diet at the proper time and they need to be given proper knowledge of their surroundings and history at the proper time. The students have to develop attitudes and values towards life. All these things are to be known by the teacher with the help of educational psychology and general psychology. The knowledge and use of psychology in the education of children is highly necessary. Psychology is the bed rock of education and helps the teachers to impart education to the student in a roper way. This book dwells on the psychological functions in regard to heredity, physical development, intellectual development and psychology in regard to the intelligence tests and educational guidance is also very helpful to the teachers in the process of teaching and learning.
