o   Concept of development and its relationship
o   Principles of the development of children
o   Influence of Heredity & Environment
o   Socialisation processes
o   Piaget, Kohlberg, and Vygotsky
o   Concepts of child-centered and progressive education
o   Critical perspective of the construct of intelligence
o   Multi-dimensional intelligence
o   Language and thought
o   Gender as a social construct - gender roles, gender - bias and educational practice
o   Individual difference among learners - to understanding differences based on diversity of
    language, caste, gender, community, religion, etc.
o   Difference between Assessment for learning and assessment of learning
o   School-based assessment, continuous & comprehensive evaluation
o   Formulating suitable questions for assessing readiness levels of learners and for enhancing
    learning and critical thinking in the classroom and eva