Educational psychology is one of the many branches of psychology dealing mainly with the problems processes and products of education it is an attempt to apply the knowledge of psychology in the field of education in other words education psychology may be defined as a branch of psychology which studies the behaviour of the learner in relation to his educational needs and his environment it has been defined by various psychologist and scholars
Scope of educational psychology
Educational psychology is a science of education which mainly deals with the problems of teaching and learning and helps the teacher in his task of modify the learners behaviour and bring about an all round development of his personality.while in psychology the scope of study and the field of operation are extended to cover the behaviour of all living organisms related to their life activities. In educational psychology e the scope of such behavioural study has to be limited within the confines of the teaching learning process that is studying the behaviour of the learners in relation to their educational environment,specifically for the satisfaction of their educational needs and the all round development of their personality the subject matter of educational psychology must be centred around the process of teaching and learning for enabling the teacher and learner to do their jobs as satisfactorily as possible
letters first see the different issues that may be involved in an ongoing teaching learning process for improving the process and products of the system related to teaching and learning we will have to improve all the ingredients of this phenomenon for this purpose the basic questions involved in the teaching learning process must be satisfied only attend to:
Who is being taught or educated?
By whom is he to be taught or educated?
why is education to be provided to the child or what are the values are objectives that are aimed at through the teaching learning process?
How when and where should this learning experience be satisfied only provided to the learner for achieving the decision educational objectives?
Educational psychology six to provide satisfactory solutions and answers to all the questions raised about accept the why of education as this is fairly the concern of educational philosophy a matter to be decided by society or government the for text of educational psychology are loaded with material related to the other six basic questions like ,
Who is being educated?
By whom is the learner to be taught
Who is to be taught?
How are the learning experience to be provided?
When and where are the learning experience to be provided?
In the discussion so far we have tried to outline the general scope of educational psychology. However the scope of a fast growing subject like educational psychology cannot be limited in such a way educational psychology being a science of education has to supply the necessary knowledge and skills for carrying out all the task of education. Education cannot be static and fixed or unchanging as it has to be planned according to the changing circumstances and needs of a particular society or nation to meet the emerging problems and demands in the field of education. Educational psychology has to work hard and keep evolving new concepts,principles, and techniques. The subject matter of educational psychology are also its field of operation is therefore, expanding day by day and in the view of this it is not possible to limit the scope of the the subject. This would in fact be advised to do so such a step would not only hamper the progress of this fact growing and developing science of behaviour, but would also hinder the realisation of the objectives of education. hence it is only right not to strictly define the scope of educational psychology so as to leave the way open for its further expansion and declare it as having no limits to effectively fulfill the aims and objectives of education.
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