Learning and Teaching Psychology

About the Book: 1.this book designed for U.G P.G B.Ed. and competitive exams. 2. The Course ‘Learning and Teaching’ have been conceptualized on the basic premise that learning and teaching should be viewed holistically. This course attempts to facilitate student teachers to understand learning and teaching as a process that works for construction of knowledge. Psychological and socio-cultural perspectives of learning have been discussed in this course. Various theoretical constructs of learning which will help you to identify the appropriate learning strategies for facilitating the construction of knowledge have been analyzed critically. This course will help you in analyzing the complex nature of teaching learning process and understanding various dimensions of teaching-learning process. Course will explain role of a teacher as a professional as well as a facilitator for learning as an innovator and an action researcher. About the Author: I try to avoid looking forward or backward and I try to keep looking up. You cannot live in your own corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. Sometimes you have to go to them. I dont know what I dont know. I dont even know the questions I need to ask in order to know but when I learn a little a dim light comes on in a dark hallway and suddenly a new question arises. I spend decades centuries millennia trying to answer this one question for another dim light. My thought is There can be no doubt that each of us can see only part of the picture. The doctor sees one the patient sees the second the engineer sees the third the economist sees the fourth the pearl diver sees the fifth the drunk. The sixth the seventh with a cable the shepherd is eighth the Indian beggar is ninth the clergy tenth. Human wisdom is never contained in one person. It grows out of the relationships we create with each other and the world and then its never complete.