Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
Schools for Growth
Radical Alternatives To Current Education Models
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
A passionate deconstruction and reconstruction of learning, development, and schooling that urges teachers to explore and create new educational opportunities for themselves and their students, Schools for Growth: Radical Alternatives to Current Educational Models asks the following questions:
Can...
by Catherine Sophian
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This book examines the origins and development of children's mathematical knowledge. It contrasts the widely held view that counting is the starting point for mathematical development with an alternative comparison-of-quantities position. According to the comparison-of-quantities position, the concept...
by C.W. Valentine
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Originally published in 1950, the author after many years’ teaching of psychology, and previous school teaching experience, provided a book specially suitable for students in training colleges and university education departments, for teachers, youth leaders, and all concerned with the training...
The Essential Sternberg
Essays on Intelligence, Psychology, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
"I strongly recommend this book to people working in the area of intellectual disabilities...It may open new vistas that are not always available in the traditional disability literature. It will especially challenge psychologists working in this field."--Journal of Policy and Practice in...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The interdisciplinary field of the learning sciences encompasses educational psychology, cognitive science, computer science, and anthropology, among other disciplines. The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences is the definitive introduction to this innovative approach to teaching, learning,...
Educational Contexts and Borders through a Cultural Lens
Looking Inside, Viewing Outside
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
This book provides a “context” of discussion for researchers and educational experts in order to rethink the relationship between actors, practices and borders within the educational contexts. The research in educational psychology has often challenged the concept of “educational context”....
Rethinking Education through Critical Psychology
Cooperative schools, social justice and voice
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Since the very first ‘co-operative’ school opened its doors in 2008, the complicated relations between ‘co-operative’ approaches to schooling anddemocratic subjectivity remain unexplored. This ground breaking book considers the role of ‘voice’ in co-operative schooling and its place in...
Working with Traumatic Brain Injury in Schools
Transition, Assessment, and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Every day, children and adolescents worldwide return to the educational setting having sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The possible negative consequences of TBI range from mild to severe and include neurological, cognitive, emotional, social, and behavioral difficulties. Within the school...
Psychology of Education
A Pedagogical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Originally published in 1979, this title is based upon Professor Stones’ extensive work with practising and student teachers. His overriding concern is with the contribution of psychology to pedagogy to help practitioners improve their practice and theorists test their theories. He develops the...
by Arun Kumar Tyagi
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2011
It has influenced education in many different ways and has give a new turn; a psychological turn to the human mind.
Remaking the Concept of Aptitude
Extending the Legacy of Richard E. Snow
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
The unique perspective of Richard E. Snow, in recent years one of the most distinguished educational psychologists, integrates psychology of individual differences, cognitive psychology, and motivational psychology. This capstone book pulls together the findings of his own 35 years of research on...
Methodological Thinking in Psychology
60 Years Gone Astray?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
In recent years an increasing dissatisfaction with methods and thinking in psychology as a science can be observed. The discipline is operating under the tension between the traditional quantitative and the new qualitative methodologies. New approaches emerge in different fields of psychology and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
For more than two decades, the concept of student engagement has grown from simple attention in class to a construct comprised of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components that embody and further develop motivation for learning. Similarly, the goals of student engagement have evolved from dropout...
Social and Emotional Learning in Australia and the Asia-Pacific
Perspectives, Programs and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Around the globe, there is a growing awareness of the importance of addressing students’ social and emotional development and wellbeing during schooling. Although the bulk of the work in this area has been conducted in North America and Europe, there is now a burgeoning interest in this topic in...