Paedocentric Education

 

Paedocentric Education

Paedo centric Education is also known as child centered education. In this pedagogy of education, the methods of teaching that shift the focus of instruction from the teacher to student. Student-Centred learning puts student’s interest first, acknowledging student voice as a central to the learning experience.

 ‘Paedo’ means child so the usage of the term Paedo-Centric is simply refer to educational mindsets or instructional method that recognize individual difference in learners. It emphasizes each student’s interest, ability and learning styles etc…here child is the focal point and all the other things like, teacher, textbook, curriculam and the school are in the background. Instead of intervene in the education of the child, teacher is supposed to guide and encourage her\his students.

Rousseau is the pioneer of this school and it was he who laid the foundation of new education “Paedo-centric” education. He is known as the father of early childhood education. According to him, The natural development should be child-centered and focused on the needs and experiences of the child at each stage of development.

Paedo-centric education stimulates early brain development. It allows the children to create and imagine, which is an important aspects of child centered education. It enable the child to learn through experience which is permanent. It is organized around the child, his personal needs and interests which are socially derive. A child centered curriculams ropes learing in to that sense of play. That helps make learing fund for kids, so they are more likely to continue doing it. It’s an excellent way to encourage their education and helps them retain more information than they would from completing a task they are forced to do.

Principles of child centered education

Ø Orientation on the needs of the children

Ø Active self regulated learning

Ø Well designed learning environment 

Ø Social learning as a method and a goal

Ø Broad understanding of performance and ability

Ø Addressing performance assessment in an encouraging manner

Ø Conduct school community

Advantages and disadvantages of Paedo- Centeric education

Advantages

• Students develop learning and other skills and gain meaning full knowledge that will help them throughout life.
• The relationship between rights and responsibilities is learned
• Teachers have less traditional work to do
• The pupil has more of and active role to play in their learning
• Interaction between students with increasing their ability to argue .
• Complaints about irrelevance and unfairness will decrease.

Disadvantages

• It  requires a longer time for students so it is difficult to achieve curriculum targets
• Take a long time for teachers so that teachers in general do not want to use cooperative learning
• It requires special skill of teacher so that not all teachers can do or use of cooperative learning
• Specific natures of students demands , such as the nature like to work together.