Learning and Teaching

Contents: Preface. 1. Learning and Teaching — Nature and Relationship. 2. Nature (Heredity) and Nurture (Environment). 3. Maturation: Concept and Educational Implications. 4. Development: Concept, Influencing Factors and Relationship with Learning. 5. Dimensions of Individual Development. 6. Theories of Development. 7. Developmental Tasks and their Implications. 8. Behaviourism Perspective. 9. Cognitivism Perspective and Learning. 10. Humanism Perspective and Learning. 11. Constructivism Perspective and Constructivist Learning.  12. Learning as Construction of Knowledge. 13. Cognition and Learning. 14. Role of Teacher in a Teaching-learning Context. 15. Intelligence: Concept, Theories and Measurement. 16. Motivation. 17. Personality — Meaning, Nature and Theories. 18. Adjustment — Meaning, Nature and Methods.

All our efforts in an educational system are focussed on carrying out the process of teaching and learning in a proper way for the needed development and progress of the learners. This book is intended to acquaint the teachers with the essentials of such learning and teaching. Beginning with throwing light on the concept of learning and teaching, it discusses all essentials about the development of the learners; approaches to learning including constructivism perspective; role of teacher in a teaching-learning context; and the intelligence, overall personality development and adjustment of the learners resulted through the process of teaching-learning. With the vast coverage of the subject, the book may prove useful to pre-service and in-service teachers and researchers in universities and teacher education institutes. (jacket)