Course code:
042P1
Course name:
Psychology

Academic year:

2019/2020.

Attendance requirements:

There are no requirements.

ECTS:

4

Study level:

basic academic studies, integrated basic and graduate academic studies

Study programs:

Chemistry: 1. year, summer semester, elective (E11H1) course

Biochemistry: 1. year, summer semester, elective (E11B1) course

Environmental Chemistry: 1. year, summer semester, elective (E11S1) course

Chemical Education: 1. year, summer semester, compulsory course

Teacher:

Olja S. Jovanoviæ Milanoviæ, Ph.D.
assistant professor, Filozofski fakultet, Èika Ljubina 18-20, Beograd

Assistants:

Hours of instruction:

Weekly: three hours of lectures (3+0+0)

Goals:

To help students acquire knowledge in the fields of developmental, pedagogical and social psychology in order to enable them to successfully and properly manage the teaching process in primary and secondary schools.

Outcome:

Candidates will have fundamental knowledge of the characteristics of adolescents and their adjustment problems, learning and knowledge acquisition, group work in school environment and class management, characteristics of a teacher and didactic communication. Candidates will also gain fundamental knowledge of the psychological aspects of media-aided learning, stress and school success/failure, pedagogical and psychological diagnostics, counseling and evaluation.

Teaching methods:

Lectures and term papers.

Extracurricular activities:

Coursebooks:

  • A. Božin: Psihologija - odabrane teme za buduće nastavnike, Geografski fakultet, Beograd
  • V. Vizek Vidović, M. Rijavec, V. Vlahović-Štetić, D. Miljković: Psihologija obrazovanja, IEP: VERN, Zagreb, 2003.

Additional material:

  Course activities and grading method

Lectures:

10 points (3 hours a week)

Syllabus:

Psychology as science. Methods of psychological research. Basic concepts and problems of developmental psychology. Life cycle. Adolescence and adjustment problems of adolescents. Learning and knowledge acquisition. Socio-psychological aspects of group work at school and class management. The psychology of a teacher. Psychological aspects of didactic communication. Media-aided learning. Stress at school. School success. Pedagogical and psychological diagnostics and counseling. Evaluation.

Homework:

30 points

Oral exam:

60 points