SYLLABUS FOR B.A. HONOURS IN EDUCATION ( UNDER CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM ) BURDWAN UNIVERSITY.

B.A Honours in Education
Semester-1st
Core Course (CC-1): Educational Philosophy-I                        Full Marks: 75

Course Contents:

Unit –I:
● Education: Meaning, Nature and Scope ● Functions of Education ● Factors of Education ● Aims of Education: Individualistic and Socialistic.
Unit –II:
● Introduction to Philosophy of Education, ● Relationship of Education and Philosophy, ● Schools of Indian Philosophy-basic features with special reference to its Epistemological and Ethical aspects ● Sankhya, ● Yoga, ● Nyaya, ● Charvak, ● Buddhist, ● Jain and their educational implications
Unit –III:
● Child Centric Education: Meaning and Characteristics, ● Aims of modern child centric education, ● Different approaches of Child-Centric Education, ● Life Centric Education: features and significance.
Unit –IV:
● Contributions of Great Educators to Education, ● Rammohan Roy, ● Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar, ● Swami Vivekananda, ● Rabindranath Tagore, ● Mahatma Gandhi.

Core Course (CC-2): Educational Psychology-I                                    Full Marks: 75

Course Contents:

Unit –I:
● Introduction to Psychology, Meaning, and Defination, ● Nature and Scope of Educational Psychology, ● Relation between Education and Psychology, ●Methods of Educational psychology
Unit –II:
● Growth and Development: Meaning and Concepts, ● Determinants of Development- Heredity and Environment, ● Principles of Development, ● Stages of Physical Development, ● Characteristics of different stages, ● Areas of development: Emotional, Intellectual and Social, ● Individual differences: concept, types, and educational implications.
Unit –III:
● Concept of learning, ● Factors associated with learning, ● Theories of learning: Trial and Error, Classical Conditioning; Operant Conditioning, Insightful learning, ● Gagne’s theory of learning,
Unit –IV:
● Transfer of Learning: Concept, Theories and Educational Application.