Childhood & Growing Up

Contents:-

Unit 1 - Growth and Development
1. MEANING OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT Human Growth and Development, Processes and Periods, Period of Development, Principles of Growth and Development. The Process of Development, Questions.
2. STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE DEVELOPMENT STAGES OF CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE
Especially at Adolescence, Stages of Development, Infancy,
1. Physical Development,
2. Mental Development,
3. Emotional Development,
4. Social Development, Early Childhood.
1. Physical Development,
2. Emotional Development,
3. Cognitive Development,
4. Stages in Intellectual Development,
5. Social Development,
6. Education During Early Childhood, Later Childhood,
1. Physical Development,
2. Emotional development,
3. Social Development,
4. Cognitive Development,
5. Mental Development,
6. Education During Later Childhood, Adolescence,
1. Preadolescence and its Characteristics,
2. Physical Development,
3. Emotional Development,
4. Social Development,
5. Mental Development,
6. Problems of Adolescence,
7. Education During Adolescence, Questions.


3. THEORIES OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Physical Development, Freudian Psychosexual Development, Criticisms, Medical Sexological Model, Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development, Nature of Intelligence: Operative and Figurative, Practical Applications, Postulated Physical Mechanisms Underlying Schemas and Stages, Relation to Psychometric Theories of Intelligence, Challenges to Piagetian Stage Theory, Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development, Stages, Development of Post-Freudian Theory, Lawrence Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development, Stages, Theoretical Assumptions (Philosophy). Examples of Applied Moral Dilemmas, Criticisms, Continued Relevance, Questions.


Unit-II - Childhood and Development
4. PHYSICAL AND MOTOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD
Physical Development of the Child, Motor Development, Questions

5. EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT What is an Emotion ?, Anger, Pugnacity and Vandietivenee, Fear, Questions.

6. SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT.
Questions.

7. GENDER ROLE
Theories of the Social Construction of Gender, Anthropology and Evolution, Cultures, Religion, Communication, Gender Inequality Online, Politics and Gender Issues, Sexual Crientation, Criminal Justice, Questions.




Unit-III - Socialization Agencies and the Child

8. POVERTY AND GLOBALIZATION
Causes of Poverty, Trade, Economy and Related Issues, Globalization, culture, Sub-culture, Universal Form of Culture, Why Culture?, How man Adopts Culture, Education and Culture,
Questions.

9. SOCIALIZATION
Agencies of Socialisation, A. Family and Socialisation, The Family in the Modern Times. The Family is a Social Institution, Family and Socialisation, Family System, The Effect of Children of Different Parental Attitudes, Parental Discipline, B. Parenting. Factors that Effect Decisions, Styles, Practices,
Questions.

10. AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE
Questions.

11. SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN SOCIALIZATION
Questions.





Unit-IV - Childhood: Issues and Concerns

12. GUIDING AND COUNSELLING OF CHILDREN Organisation of Guidance and Counselling Programmes for Adolescents. The Drugs in Abuse with their Popular Names. Questions.

13. SOCIAL ISSUES
Consequences of Separation/Divorce for Children. Children Institutions of Armed Conflict, Some Key Issues in the Provision of Psychosocial Assistance, Approaches to Intervention, Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Questions.

14 . HEALTH CONCERNS: CHILD ABUSE, CHILD OBESITY Definitions, Types, Effects. Causes, Disclosure and Diagnosis. Assessment, Prevention, Treatment, Prevalence, Society and Culture, Ethics, Organisations, Child Obesity, Causes. Prevention, Management, Epidemiology. Research, Questions

15. PROBLEMS AND STRATEGIES TO ACHIVE EFA The Development Context and Priorities, Gender Parity and Equility, Questions.

16. REVIEW OF EFA STRATEGIES AND SECTOR MANAGEMENT
Enabling/Constraining Factors.

17. SCHEMES AND PROGRAMMES OF GOI FOR GENDER EQUITY AND EQUALITY IN INDIA
National Strategies to Bridge Gender and Social Gaps.

18. NGOs (NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS) Important Project of Chip Mumbai in the Context of Education, Questions.