Scope of Educational Psychology:
There are three aspects of education that concern the educational psychologists (those who are experts in the field of educational psychology). These are:
1. Learner
2. Learning Process
3. Learning Situation
Learner:
Learner means the children
or students collectively comprise the classroom group. The learner is the
central theme in educational psychology. What happens in the classroom can be
explained in terms of personalities, developmental stages, adjustment, and
psycho-social problems of students, individual differences in psycho-motor
abilities, and cognitive ability.
Learning
Process:
What goes on when people
learn is terms as “learning process”. The teacher teaches and the children may
learn. Sometimes, the teacher teaches a subject but the children learn
something else. Sometimes, the teacher may not teach something, but the
children may learn it. The educational psychologies is interest in what happens
when a child learns, why he learns what teachers want him to learn, and why he
learns what teachers do not want him to learn.
Learning
Situation:
It refers to those factors
or conditions that affect the learner and the learning process. For example, classroom settings, attitude and
behavior of the teacher, emotional climate of the school, and so on are some of
the significant factors that affect the learner and the learning process.
