The psychology with education degree aims to delve deeper into the how and why. This option is especially more in line with students interested in special and development phase education. With additional studies upon completion, students can also explore career options into Educational Psychology. However, even with just a degree it is possible to start work as a career counsellor if teaching is not completely your forte.
Your studies will explore learning processes, various levels
of development milestones (cognitive, physical and psychosocial), behavioural
theories and approaches along with constructivist approaches and applications
throughout education. In order to really understand this application, students
explore educational topics that include technology uses, instructional methods,
curriculum development and approaches to intelligence.
The combination of psychological approaches to the field of education
has increased in popularity in recent years. Gone are the negative connotations
to the field of psychology as people no longer consider it a field only of
interest to people obsessed with Freud or the clinically insane. A deeper
understanding of the psyche has emerged in a society looking for wider acceptance
and diversity. Even in a “normal” classroom we now have to accommodate various ethnicities, cultures and subcultures. As an educator, having the knowledge and
understanding how to tread through these waters correctly can only be beneficial to
society at large. Applying the correct approach in the classroom will lead to
students growing up with the ability to imitate this in the job market and in
all other relationships.
If we want to build a society that is accommodating, a society that forgives, a society of peace, we need to start this at foundation level. And who spends more time with our youngsters than their educators?
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