Education and Human Development

Contents: Preface. I. Fundamentals of education: 1. The concept and forms of education. 2. Educational values. 3. Educational aims--general concept. 4. Educational aims--the Indian concept. 5. Functions and priorities of education. 6. The curriculum. II. Human growth and development: 7. The process of human growth and development. 8. Physical growth and development. 9. Motor development and education. 10. Development of response mechanism--the nervous system. 11. Mental development and learning. 12. The concept of personality development and adjustment and its educational implications. III. Human development tasks: 13. The concept of developmental tasks and developmental tasks of infancy and early childhood. 14. Developmental tasks of middle childhood and education. 15. Need to implement developmental tasks as objectives of elementary education. 16. Developmental tasks of adolescent and education. 17. Need to correlate developmental tasks with school curriculum. 18. Educational aspects of developmental tasks of early adulthood. 19. Psycho-educational aspects of developmental tasks of personal independence. 20. Educational aspects of developmental tasks of middle-age. 21. Educational aspects of developmental tasks of later maturity. 22. How to achieve mental efficiency and success without fatigue. Index.