Understanding The Elementary School Child

Understanding The Elementary School Child

1 Social World of Children

  1. Understanding Socialisation
  2. Norms and Values
  3. Children and their Social World
  4. Influence of Region, Religion, Caste and Class
  5. Media: Childโ€™s Virtual World

2 Going to School

  1. Schooling (as a modern institution)
  2. Relationship with Teachers
  3. Relationship with Peers
  4. Children Who Are Out of School

3 Social Development in Childhood

  1. Defining Psycho-social Development
  2. Emotional Development
  3. Social Development
  4. Moral Development
  5. Impact of Parents and Teachers

4 Children at Play

  1. What is Play?
  2. Types of Play
  3. Guns for Boys and Dolls for Girls โ€“ It Doesnโ€™t Have to be That Way
  4. To Play is to Develop
  5. Teacherโ€™s Role in Play
  6. Involving Parents
  7. All Work and No Play
  8. Learning can be Fun

5 Introduction to Development.

  1. Introducing notions of child and childhood
  2. Understanding the process of growing-up: Development
  3. Ways of understanding child development
  4. Debates about development
  5. Some common understandings about development

6 Methods to Study Children

  1. Researching Classrooms for understanding children
  2. Meaning and process of classroom research
  3. Tools of Research
  4. Observing Learner Engagement and Experience
  5. Interactions and conversations with children
  6. Childrenโ€™s writing
  7. Child-Profile/ Cumulative Record

7 Physical and Psycho-Motor Development

  1. Understanding Physical Development
  2. Changes in Skeletal Structure, Bones and Muscles
  3. Psycho-Motor Development
  4. Factors That Hinder Physical Development in Children
  5. Physical Development and Education: The School Context

8 Cognitive Development

  1. Introducing the Concept of Cognitive Development
  2. Why Should Teachers Study Cognitive Development
  3. Piagetโ€™s Theory of Cognitive Development
  4. Vygotskyโ€™s Socio-Cultural Perspective on Learning
  5. Language and Cognition
  6. Theoretical Perspectives and Recent Shifts in Education

9 Childhood

  1. Conceptualization of Child and Adult
  2. Adult-Child Relationship
  3. Commonalities and Diversities of Childhood
  4. Concept of Childhood in Different Social Classes/Communities
  5. Profiles of Particular Community Children
  6. Studying Children and Childhood

10 Understanding Marginalization

  1. Conceptualizing Growing-Up in Difficult Contexts
  2. Poverty and Children
  3. Understanding Marginalization, Social Exclusion and Vulnerability
  4. Dalits
  5. Muslims/ Minorities
  6. Tribals
  7. Gender and Girlโ€™s Education
  8. Children in Difficult Contexts
  9. Schools and Marginalized Children
  10. Teacherโ€™s Role

11 Understanding Gender

  1. Gender is a social construction
  2. Concept of Patriarchy
  3. The Family
  4. Educational Institutions and Knowledge Systems
  5. Intersection of Gender with Other Socio-Economic-Political Markers of Identity
  6. Educational Experiences and Gender
  7. Basic Statistics about Gender

12 Inclusion

  1. Children with Special Needs
  2. Concept of Inclusion
  3. Barriers in Inclusion of Children with Special Needs
  4. Brief Outline of Laws and Provisions
  5. Special Education โ€“ Integration โ€“ Inclusion
  6. Role of the Teachers in the Inclusive Classrooms
  7. Needs of Children with Special Needs