About the Book

Applied and Educational Psychology

Long before educational psychology became a formal discipline, scholars were concerned about what people think and do as they and learn. The Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle discussed topics till studied by educational psychologists the role of the teacher, the relationship between teacher and student, methods of teaching, the nature and order of learning, the role of affect in learning.The present book will be very useful for the students and teachers of psychology and its related fields. CONTENTS : (1)Introduction (2)Adult Educational Psychology (3)Sociocultural Approaches to Educational Psychology (4)Critical Educational Psychology (5)Educational Psychology (6)Meaning and Definitions (7)Motivation in Education (8)The Arguments of the Educational Sociologists.