CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Right from the very start of education psychology, there have been teaching and learning. Teaching and learning take effect from birth to death. It is impotent to now that educational psychology with enhances greater output in teaching – learning process. There are some contributions made by educational psychology towards teaching – learning process examples are: 1) Educational psychology with its study attempts to develop the theories of teaching. 2) Educational psychology also with its study helps to improve teaching methods and materials. 3) The study of educational psychology attempts to solve learning problems, and to measure learning abilities. 4) The study of educational psychology helps to improve teaching practice in all components of the basic teaching model. 5) The study of educational psychology attempts to measures educational progress and how individuals learn at different ages. With the knowledge of that, the teacher is better placed to understand his students. He will be able to diagnose when an individuals child is having some problem because learn ability is negatively affect. He will try to find out the sources of the problems whether it is physical, emotional, social to mention but a few. The teacher will find a way to see that the problems are solve if possible or controlled. When a proper attention is given to a child, such a child will have a sense of belongings. As a result of the care, there is the tendency that the child will come back from abnormality to normalcy
1.2 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The purpose of this study is to investigate into the relevance of educational psychology the teaching –learning process in secondary schools, in Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State. The researcher being aware of this will dwell more on the relevance of educational psychology the teaching-learning process in some secondary schools in Enugu South. The purpose of this study is to look closely at certain problems and how they hinder effective teaching and learning. The objectives of educational psychology as summarized by S. S. Challhan (1987) are: · To provide teachers with some basic skills related to teaching. To give teachers guidelines to solve problems associated with teaching – learning process. · To help teachers to understand the scientific knowledge and to instill in them a spirit of inquiry for their professional growth. In conclusion, the researcher will no doubt unfold the possible solutions, which should of course be a welcome relief not only to teachers and students in secondary schools in Enugu South but to the school system in general.