Scattered throughout their works Aristotle and Plato discussed the following issues such as, “the ends of education, the ideals of the educated man, the disadvantages of being educated, the kinds of education that are appropriate to different kinds of people, the training of the body and the cultivation of bodily skills, the formation of a good character, the possibilities and limits of moral education, the influence of the family in the training, the role of the state in moral education, the effect upon character of music, poetry and other arts the profession of teaching and the relation of teacher and students, the means and methods of teaching the nature of learning, the order of learning, the emotional aspect of learning learning apart from teachers and the acquisition of techniques.”.Īlmost the same kind of educational system was operative in ancient India and we see the greatest teacher Krishna teaching the most obedient disciple Arjuna in Gita and imparting the kind of education embodying the ethos of Indian social thoughts and Indian idealism.Īristotle’s psychological views relevant to the educational matters are presented more systematically, logically and in greater details than as forwarded either by Socrates or Plato. From Plato and Aristotle onward we got glimpses of modern education and its relation to psychological factors. They were gems of post-Socratic period dating back to fourth century B. Other great names in the field of education of classical period, in West were Socrates, the epitome of education, followed by Plato and Aristotle. Much later, psychology replaced philosophical concept after a great deal of research work carried on throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century. The concept of mind and its training was more of philosophical nature, than of psychological one. teacher’s) Ashram, where they were trained to acquire various skills and given special trainings to lead life and later to attain self-realization, the ultimate aim of education. They were totally separated from the family for a particular period of life-sent to the Guru’s (i.e. In Arya Society in India, however, education was confined to a particular stratum or class, whose formal education started only at the age of 12 after a formal initiation, who became Brahmmacharins. That is, in fact, the essence of patriarchal society. Moulding the son in accordance with the identity of the father -even to be absolutely identified with the son to enter into the son during death as presented in Mahabharata is an example of the same process. In India the same kind of imparting education by the father to the son was a social a practice. Stress was laid upon such matters as training in the management of property by sharing it with the children. He held that the father’s self-control and the process of educating himself served to teach the children.Įventually there arose the importance of child rearing process in educational psychology. He wrote about the importance of education in man’s continuity of life process as well as considered the influence of the home and family upon the child. In the West, this feature can be traced from pre-Socratic period of classical Greece, where Democritus in fifth Century B. Before the emergence of psychology as a discipline in its own right, and of educational psychology as a branch of that discipline-speculation and observation concerning the relation of human nature to the educational process were not uncommon. The individuals who are interested in teaching profession and those who are already in it, as for example, the classroom teachers or educational managers-cum-administrators have become more and more interested in the development of broader and more general themes of educational psychology.Ī number of eminent scholars and scientists have in the process contributed to the development of educational psychology as a major applied field within the context of psychology.Ī brief historical trekking along the developmental path of educational psychology as it reaches the modern age, would probably be relevant here. Introduction to Educational Psychology:Įducational psychology has become a separate discipline altogether as it poses itself in the present time. Aims and Objectives of Educational Psychologyġ.A Cognitive-Developmental View of Educational Psychology.Introduction to Educational Psychology 2. After reading this article you will learn about:- 1.
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