About This Course
The course aims to provide learners with various psychological and sociological theories to understand learning and analyse and make sense of learners’ experience. It will facilitate the development of an understanding of the role of memory, cognition, metacognition, intelligence and learning in development. The course will orient the learners to the development milestones through different ages and stages of development through adolescence focusing on the socio-emotional aspects and its influence on learners and learning.
The theories focused on the course will focus on learning as a highly individualistic pursuit and at the same time, learning seen in the context of an activity or guided by the environment surrounding the child. It will extend the learners’ capacity to deliberate on questions that explore the relation of learning theories and the impact of technology and new sciences (chaos and networks) on learning by looking at theories for the digital age. The theories overall will be discussed in the sequence of their historical evolution with a focus on - assumptions about learners and learning, evolving conditions for creating learning environments, implications for planning teaching activities, analysing students’ thinking and engagement, etc.
Course Objectives:
The course aims to
- Engage learners in the historical emergence, principles, key ideas, and limitations of psychological and sociological theories of learning.
- Discuss major contributions of different theories and ways in which they can be used to make sense of students’ learning
Who can join the course?
The course will be available to students who have registered or invited for the MA in Education and Technology program.
Note: The best way to access this course is through a laptop/desktop or TISSx mobile app.
