Part 2😍🌏|| What is the historical development of Educational Psychology☄...

(Faculty psychology had a great influence on education in the USA. It gave birth to a theory of education popularly known as the formal discipline theory of education. It emphasized the form of subject matter and its disciplining value of the mind.

(The pioneering work in the development of educational psychology was done by Herbart and Froebel, German professors. They developed an approach to education based on the principles of psychology. They rejected the doctrines of faculty psychology. Herbart stressed the importance of interest and apperception. He considered human personality as a dynamic and individually structured system of forces. Froebel developed new methods of teaching for infants popularly known as "Kindergarten which emphasizes the importance of early experiences in education. Till now we have been talking about the development of educational psychology in terms of the contribution made by philosopher educators. The beginning of scientific educational psychology starts to form the latter half of 18 century when Galton, G. Stanley Hall and Ebbinghaus published their studies on different aspects of human behaviour. William James published Principles of Psychology in 1890, in which he advocated a functional approach to psychology.)

J.M. Cattell made a great contribution in the area of individual differences and mental testing.

Alfred Binet, the first psychologist who contributed by devising first

widely used individual intelligence scale Scientific educational psychology, at the beginning of the present century, drew the attention of a number of psychologists who devoted their research to special areas within psychology which had an impact on education. E.L. Thorndike, C.H. Judd, L.M. Terman etc. worked in specific areas of educational psychology.

The System of Psychology Behaviourism, Psychoanalysis and Gestalt Psychology was developed at the beginning of the present century. These systems explained human behaviour and learning from different angles and influenced the theory and practice of education.

Educational psychology is a continuously growing discipline adding new dimensions to its field of study. The field of educational psychology is becoming more complex in modern days encompassing total behaviour of human beings in educational situations.