10 Things to know About Child Development and Pedagogy

Introduction

In this blog/article, you will learn about some important terminologies, and topics of child development and pedagogy frequently asked in CTET, B.ED, and NET exams. There are many optimization strategies to boost your teaching, which this article will outline.

Horace Mann

Horace Mann is known to be the Father of American education.

Lord Macaulay

Lord Macaulay is the father and founder of the current education system.

Lord Macaulay is also known as the father of modern education in India.

Friedrich Froebel is known as the father of the kindergarten.

W.H. Killpatrick is known as the father of the project method.

Maria Montessori is known as the mother of the Montessori method.

Henry Edward Armstrong is known as the father of the Heuristic method

Helen Parkhurst is known as the mother of the Dalton method.

Pedagogy

·       The father of modern Pedagogy is Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. His immense contribution is in establishing the scientific foundations of the teaching-learning process.

·       Pedagogy and Pedagogue come from the Greek Paidos “boy, child” plus agogos “leader”.

·       Pedagogy is the method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept.

·       Pedagogy is the “art”, science, or profession of teaching.

Fluency

Fluency means having an easy and smooth flow and rhythm when speaking.

Social interaction

·       Social interaction is how we act and react to those around us.

·       Social interaction includes those acts people/children perform toward each other and the responses they give in return.

·       As children grow and learn, they require social interactions with others to form a sense of self and to develop their cognitive, emotional, and language skills.

·       Some common examples of social interaction are peer groups, buying food from a street vendor and family members engaged in a conversation.

Heuristic method

·       Heuristic method is a method of teaching that involves placing of children as far as possible in the attitude of a discoverer.

·       In the Heuristic method, the student has to find the answer to his/her problem by unaided efforts.

Piaget's Inductive logic

Inductive logic means going from a specific experience to a general principle.

Piaget's Conservation

Conservation means when something changes in shape or appearance it is still the same.

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Lawrence Kohlberg's Moral Reasoning

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Language disorder

A Language disorder is an impairment of comprehension and/or use of a spoken, written, and/or other symbol system. It may involve language's form, content, and/ or function.

Speech disorder

A speech disorder is impaired voice, articulation or speech sounds, and/ or fluency.

Dysarthria

Dysarthria is a Speech disorder caused by muscle weakness (including face, lips, tongue, and throat) controlled by the nervous system.

Apraxia

Apraxia is defined as a speech disorder when the neural path between the nervous system and the muscles responsible for speech production is obscured or lost.

Lisping

A lisping speech disorder is defined as the incapability of producing sibilant consonants (z or s) correctly.

Cluttering

Cluttering is characterized by a patient’s speech being too jerky, too rapid, or both.

Stuttering

·       Stuttering is also called stammering and childhood-onset fluency disorder.

·       Stuttering is a speech condition that disrupts the normal flow of speech.

·       Stuttering is a neuro-developmental speech disorder that commences when neural connections supporting language, speech, and emotional functions are quickly changing, and is characterized by core behavior that usually takes the form of involuntary stoppages and repetition.

Articulation disorder

·       Articulation disorder is also called functional speech disorder or articulation delay.

·       Articulation disorder is the inability to produce sounds correctly in speech.

·       An articulation disorder involves the substitution, addition, omission, or distortion of speech sounds that may negatively impact message intelligibility, for example, producing the word [sun] as [tun].

Motor speech disorder

Motor speech disorders are associated with acquired or developmental 

neurologic  impairments such as cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, and 

traumatic brain injury.

PYQs

1. Dysgraphia is a ..................................         CTET-2023

(a) Speech disorder characterized by stuttering and errors in articulation

(b) Locomotor disorder characterized by gross motor impairment

(c) Neurological disorder characterized by trouble in forming letters and shapes

(d) Psychological disorder characterized by lack of attention and impulsive behavior

2. While ..................... agencies of socialism are predominantly important in infancy,  ...................... agencies of socialism also become important in early childhood.                CTET-2023

(a) Tertiary, Secondary

(b) Primary, Secondary

(c) Secondary, Primary

(d) Secondary, tertiary