Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
by Comgin Rosemary
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
This book was not written to repeat traumas of abuse but rather to promote healing and encouragement for all readers. This book takes the reader who may be a victim to understand where they are, help express how they really feel, and see themselves moving in a better place. This book also help others...
Game-Based Learning in Action
How an Expert Affinity Group Teaches With Games
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
How are expert educators using games in their classrooms to give students agency, while also teaching twenty-first century skills, like empathy, systems thinking, and design thinking? This question has motivated Matthew Farber’s Game-Based Learning in Action: How an Expert Affinity Group Teaches...
Reading Comprehension
Assisting Children with Learning Difficulties
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2011
Reading Comprehension: Assisting Children with Learning Difficulties examines the complex nature of reading comprehension. It introduces a model for classifying reading comprehension based on an expanded Simple View of Reading. Issues related to assessment, diagnosis, and remediation of reading comprehension...
by David Kember
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This book is based upon three interrelated open naturalistic studies conducted to better characterise the motivational orientation of students in higher education. Open semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with undergraduates, students at community colleges and students in taught postgraduate...
Student Engagement in the Digital University
Sociomaterial Assemblages
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Student Engagement in the Digital University challenges mainstream conceptions and assumptions about students’ engagement with digital resources in Higher Education. While engagement in online learning environments is often reduced to sets of transferable skills or typological categories, the authors...
Participatory Video in Adult Education
Cultivating Participatory Culture in Communities
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
This book highlights participatory video as an instrument for community-based adult education and focuses in particular on the role that it can play in promoting participatory culture among adult learners. In brief, participatory video refers to participant-centered video making. Today, participant-generated...
Early Study-Abroad and Identities
Korean Early Study-Abroad Undergraduates
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
This book investigates how transnational English learning experiences can influence students’ identities. More specifically, it delineates how Korean early study abroad undergraduates perceive English and how they have formed their ethnic identities based on their early study abroad experiences....
Teachers as Self-directed Learners
Active Positioning through Professional Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
This book redefines teacher in-service education as being less about participation in a program and more about the opportunity for teachers to experience a process of learning that is personally meaningful and contextually relevant to their own teaching practice. The research presented here reveals...
Development and Assessment of Self-Authorship
Exploring the Concept Across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book brings together new scholarship that expands and refines the concept of self-authorship across cultures. It adopts a constructive-developmental approach to self-evolution that emphasizes the interaction of personal characteristics and contextual influences on individuals’ construction of...
Homeschool
An American History
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
This book provides a lively account of one of the most important and overlooked themes in American education. Beginning in the colonial period and working to the present, Gaither describes in rich detail how the home has been used as the base for education of all kinds. The last five chapters focus...
by Daniel Goleman, Peter M. Senge
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Daniel Goleman y Peter M. Senge ofrecen a los profesionales de la educación, a los padres con hijos en edad escolar y a todo aquel relacionado con la pedagogía, la incorporación de tres conjuntos de habilidades básicas de comprensión: el triple enfoque.
Este nuevo libro se encuentra en...
Evaluation of Online Higher Education
Learning, Interaction and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The work presents a theoretical framework for the evaluation of e-Teaching that aims at positioning the online activities designed and developed by the teacher as to the Learning, Interaction and Technology Dimensions.
The theoretical research that underlies the study was developed reflecting...
Reformmodelle in der Berufsorientierung
Das Beispiel der Patenschaft
Language: German
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Die Berufsorientierung als Aufgabe für die Schule hat sich durchgesetzt. Trotz der sich häufenden Modelle bleiben die Erwartungen, die Ausbildungsabbrüche durch die verstärkten Aktivitäten zu reduzieren, unerfüllt. Zwar stehen neben neuen und erweiterten Diagnoseverfahren die Betriebspraktika...
by Oscar Koopman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This book explores the impact of the socio-historical, political, and economic environment in South Africa, both during and after Apartheid. During this time, the South African education system demonstrated an interest in a specific type of knowledge, which Koopman refers to as ‘a science of government’....