Educational Psychology category: 2684 books

School experience is the most significant part of learning to be a teacher. It can also be the most confusing, stressful and challenging. Initially, it can be very daunting to walk into someone else's classroom and try to prepare and teach effective lessons to someone else's class. It helps to have...

Have you ever wondered why, after apparently satisfactory preparation for and performance at an examination, you still come out with poor grades? Do you find it difficult to settle down for serious study? Do you easily forget what you read? Do you belong to either the group of...

Relationships play an important role in human development, especially in the first years of life. Bridging the Relationship Gap provides caregivers tools and encouragement to be the strong, positive, and nurturing adult these children need in order to thrive. Learn more about the factors that...

In contemporary society, science constitutes a significant part of human life in that it impacts on how people experience and understand the world and themselves. The rapid advances in science and technology, newly established societal and cultural norms and values, and changes in the climate and...

Teachers' Learning: Stories of Science Education is aimed at science educators who wish for a deeper understanding of how teachers learn to teach science and the role of stories in reporting science education research. It is a fascinating look at the knowledge teachers have and use, how context influences...

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Pedagogy - School Pedagogics, grade: Distinction, University of South Australia, language: English, abstract: The essay discusses the relationship between adventure and/or wilderness, health and well being. It is labourious to overcome one`s weaker self. It...

The authors of the chapters in this volume—past and present collaborators of Marty Maehr, and a few of his former graduate students along the years—are motivational researchers who conduct research using diverse methods and perspectives, and in different parts of the world. All, however, see their...

Fernando Salvatore Fiore è docente presso i licei. L'autore, in questo saggio, affronta la questione dei BES e DSA, quali risorse preziose per il sistema scolastico, ripercorrendo le tappe legislative che hanno permesso l'inclusione scolastica. Inoltre sono trattate le problematiche legate alle metodologie...

This edited volume of papers from the twenty first International Conference on Chemical Education attests to our rapidly changing understanding of the chemistry itself as well as to the potentially enormous material changes in how it might be taught in the future. Covering the full range of appropriate...

In The Power of Dyslexic Thinking, Robert Lanston shares the inspirational stories of people who overcame the hurdles of living with dyslexia to become influential business and cultural leaders. From Kinkos founder Paul Orfalea to prominent financier Charles Schwab to Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist...

This monograph presents the current views, challenges and future needs of educators from a global online exchange where educators and researchers discuss the 21st century skills needed by students and teachers. The three editors, who participated in the global online research discussion group, also...

This book examines new trends and developments in research related to the mathematical education of pre-service elementary teachers, and explores the implications of these research advances for theory and practice in teacher education.  The book is organized around the following four overarching...

​This edited volume explores how primary school teachers create rich opportunities for science learning, higher order thinking and reasoning, and how the teaching of science in Australia, Germany and Taiwan is culturally framed. It draws from the international and cross-cultural science education...

It goes without saying that atomic structure, including its dual wave-particle nature, cannot be demonstrated in the classroom. Thus, for most science teachers, especially those in physics and chemistry, the textbook is their key resource and their students’ core source of information. Science education...