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EDU 1105: Developmental Psychology

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Mode of Delivery:

  • Online
  • Blended mode: mixed online and face-to -face
  • Face-to-Face

1. Rationale

As a teacher you will be expected to deal with learners of different backgrounds and with a variety of individual differences at different age levels. In order for you to effectively handle the learners you need to know the basic principles of human growth and development and the characteristics that emerge. With this knowledge, you will be able to know their potentialities and capabilities. This is important in order for you to provide effective teaching and guidance. The module offers you a scientific study of the progressive psychological changes that may have occurred in your learners up to adolescence.

2. Prerequisite or knowledge

Module 1: General Psychology

3. General objectives
The general objectives of this module are:

  • To introduce you to human development so that you are able to better understand the characteristics of your learners.
  • To expose you to theories of cognitive, language, personality, social and moral development as well as to the period of adolescence. The emphasis being on the adolescent learner.


4. Time

To cover this module it will require around 110 hours distributed a follows:

Unit 1: 10 hours
Unit 2: 30 hours
Unit 3: 40 hours
Unit 4: 30 hours

5. Materials

The following are important materials that will be necessary to learn this module:

  • Face to face demonstrations using actual pupils or caregivers
  • Experimental set-ups for hands-on experiments
  • Recommended web-based materials