PGTRB Educational Psychology Syllabus – Full Guide for Competitive Exam Preparation
Are you preparing for the PGTRB (Post Graduate Teacher Recruitment Board) exam for the Post of Post Graduate Assistants / Physical Education Directors Grade-I? Here’s a complete overview of the Education Methodology syllabus, specifically focused on Educational Psychology, compiled and explained for your clear understanding.
📘 Unit I – Foundation of Education
- Focuses on Pre-Primary to Higher Secondary Education.
- Discusses Non-formal & Adult Education, functional literacy, and vocational/skill-based education.
- Highlights major issues like unemployment, underemployment, brain drain, and the role of education in poverty eradication.
- Covers programs for dropouts, industrial workers, rural and tribal people.
🌐 Unit II – Social and Policy Aspects of Education
- Deals with national integration, international understanding, and value-based education.
- Explores sanitation, nutrition, women’s education, education for handicapped and gifted children.
- Focus on Environmental Education, language policies, and the structure of educational management.
🏛 Unit III – History and Culture of Tamil Nadu
- Includes insights into Tamil Nadu’s political, religious, spiritual, and educational history.
- Discusses natural resources, occupations, historical and tourist places, arts, games, and society.
🧠 Unit IV – Learner & Learning Process
- Covers the importance of Educational Psychology, growth and maturity, and developmental characteristics.
- Psychological aspects like attention, perception, concept formation, and Piaget’s cognitive theory are central.
🧒 Unit V – Adolescence and Learning Patterns
- Analyzes adolescent behavior, group behavior, and individual learning styles.
- Covers learning types including trial and error, classical and operant conditioning, insight learning, and learning disabilities.
🔍 Unit VI – Motivation and Mental Health
- Discusses Maslow’s hierarchy, IQ, creativity, intelligence theories, and personality assessment.
- Emphasizes mental hygiene, guidance and counselling, and conflict management.
🏫 Unit VII – Educational Innovations
- Reviews educational experiments by Tagore, Gandhiji, A.S. Neill, Sri Aurobindo, Rousseau, Montessori, Dewey, and others.
- Explains the influence of cultural, religious, and psychological factors on innovation in education.
🎓 Unit VIII – Modern Educational Trends
- National Education Policy 1986, Teacher Education reforms (DTERT, DIETs, BRCs, CRCs), and Joyful learning.
- Innovations like Deschooling, mobile schools, community learning, open learning, and mass communication in education.
- Highlights educational technology, Sainik schools, and Defence academies.
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