EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Education is the modification of behaviour in a desirable direction or in a controlled environment and psychology is the study of behaviour or science of behaviour. To modify the behaviour or to bring about some changes in the behaviour it is necessary to study the science of behaviour.

Detailed explanation-2: -Thus, it is concluded that the Psychologist who defined educational psychology as a science of education is Peel.

Detailed explanation-3: -Educational psychology is the area of psychology that is concerned with the study and assessment of teaching methods, and with helping individual pupils who have educational problems.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the words of E.A. Peel, “Educational Psychology is the science of Education”. Education by all means is an attempt to mould and shape the behaviour of the pupil. It aims to produce desirable changes in him for the all-round development of his personality.