Competencies and objectives

Provisional information. Pending approval by the Department Council.

 

Course context for academic year 2017-18

Study Programme in which it is taught: Undergraduate Degree in Child Education Subject context
Educational Psychology is a subject created from Core Module 1, namely Educational Processes, Learning and Personality Development, which is taught in the first academic year of the Undergraduate Degree in Child Education.
The subject Educational Psychology provides basic training related to the knowledge of variables which have a clear impact on students’ learning process. It also presents explanatory theories of the process of acquisition of school abilities and competences, the result of such process, and the interaction among the different interpersonal and contextual variables.
This subject allows students to understand the characteristics of their own students, and the way to improve the learning process.
It is related to other subjects of the Core Module, like Developmental Psychology 0-3; Developmental Psychology 3-6, and Design of Educational Processes in Child Education. Although this last subject adopts a more didactic approach to the learning processes and its application to the educational context, all of them are taught in the first academic year. Educational Psychology is also related to other core subjects such as Learning and Developmental Disabilities, and in a practical way to the Work Placements (1, 2, 3), as students will be able to apply the knowledge and competences learnt, as well as their role as pre-school teachers.


 

 

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)

General Competences (CG)

  • CG2 : Capacity to learn and accept responsibility. Be aware of the learning process itself and self-regulate it. Capacity to find, use and integrate information. Show interest in learning throughout one's life and update one's professional competences and points of view, autonomously, focused according to the needs of the moment. Ensure balanced emotional growth.
  • CG3 : Capacity to adapt to new situations. Analyse changes that may occur in the environment flexibly and be able to take well-founded decisions to respond to them. Plan and organise new actions with reflective capacity.
  • CG4 : Team work. Collaborate with others to create a common project. Be able to collaborate in interdisciplinary teams and assume different roles in the dynamics of the work groups and lead them when appropriate.
  • CG5 : Interpersonal relationship skills. Show empathy, sociability and tact when communicating with others, as well as opposing violence, prejudice and sexist stereotypes. Create a pleasant and cooperative atmosphere. Transmit well-being, security, calmness and sympathy in interpersonal relationships.
  • CG6 : Capacity for creativity and entrepreneurship. Formulate, design and manage innovative projects to answer the needs detected. Find and integrate new knowledge and attitudes in national and international experiences to make creative changes to professional practices.
  • CG9 : Capacity for communication. Understand and express oneself both orally and in writing in the official languages of the Region of Valencia and one foreign language, including all available visual and auditory elements needed in each case, communicating effectively and efficiently in different contexts and for different purposes.

 

Specific Competences (CE)

  • CE12 : Understand that teaching involves continuous improvement and adapting to scientific, pedagogical, technological, social and cultural changes throughout one's lifetime.
  • CE14 : Reflect on classroom practices to innovate and improve teaching. Acquire habits and skills for self and cooperative learning and promote them among teachers and children.
  • CE2 : Promote and facilitate learning in early childhood, from a globalising and integrating approach to the different cognitive, linguistic, emotional, motor, social, philosophical, cultural and volitive dimensions .
  • CE3 : Design and regulate harmonious learning contexts in contexts of diversity in Preschool Education that satisfy the unique educational needs of each child, learning difficulties, gender equality, equity and the respect for human rights.
  • CE4 : Foment coexistence both in and outside the Infant Education classroom and present the peaceful resolution of conflicts.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2017-18

1. To understand the current situation of the Educational Psychology as a discipline, its study goals and main contents.
2. To understand concepts, methods and techniques related to the learning process in the educational context.
3. To analyze and synthesize the most significant explanatory models of school learning.
4. To organize and plan the educational situation, according to the students’ characteristics.
5. To apply the principles of knowledge acquisition to the design and development of teaching.
6. To resolve educational situations though the design of global learning environments in child Education.
7. To develop the capacity of participation and negotiation in collaborative classroom work.
8. To demonstrate the capacity of autonomous work.

 

 

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General

Code: 17102
Lecturer responsible:
GONZALEZ GOMEZ, MARIA CARLOTA
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,20
Practical credits: 1,20
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: PSYCHOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT AND DIDACTICS
    Area: EVOLUTION AND EDUCATION PSYCHOLOGY
    Theoretical credits: 1,2
    Practical credits: 1,2
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught