This module aims at equipping students with knowledge, skills and attitudes that will enable them, as prospective teachers, to understand the behaviour of learners and the school environment in which teaching and learning take place. Therefore, this module will tackle various concepts of psychology such as meaning and nature of psychology, major perspectives, branches and research methods of psychology, biological bases of behaviour, intelligence, sensation and perception, memory and forgetting, emotion, motivation, personality and psychological disorders.
Philosophical Foundations of Education cours is combined with Sociological Foundations of Education.
Students are challenged to reflect upon the meaning and implication of Philosophy and Education in our society, the branches of philosophy (Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Logic...Philosophy of Education).
They are also introduced to some historical views in philosophy and philosophy education such as idealism, empiricism, realism, pragmatism, existentialism, phenomenology, perenialism, essentialism, reconstructionism, progressivism...
The first aim is to equip students with a critical mind by allowing them to discuss and assess the relevance of these topics in particular situations. The second aim is to bring this critical reflection into matters of education and social interactions. Here students are asked to write short essays about these issues.
They are encouraged to find out the underlying significance of philosophy in Education and sociology, in their everydayness and future career or dreams...