Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
Constructivist Instruction
Success or Failure?
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Constructivist Instruction: Success or Failure? brings together leading thinkers from both sides of the hotly debated controversy about constructivist approaches to instruction. Although constructivist theories and practice now dominate the fields of the learning sciences, instructional technology,...
Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation
The Roles of Domain-Specific and Domain-General Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Competence in scientific reasoning is one of the most valued outcomes of secondary and higher education. However, there is a need for a deeper understanding of and further research into the roles of domain-general and domain-specific knowledge in such reasoning. This book explores the functions and...
Childhoods in India
Traditions, Trends and Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book highlights the significance of an interdisciplinary approach to understanding children and childhoods in the Indian context. While it is recognised that multiple kinds of childhoods exist in India, policy and practice approaches to working with children are still based on a singular model...
School Belonging in Adolescents
Theory, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
This book explores the concept of school belonging in adolescents from a socio-ecological perspective, acknowledging that young people are uniquely connected to a broad network of groups and systems within a school system. Using a socio-ecological framework, it positions belonging as an essential...
U.S. Immigration and Education
Cultural and Policy Issues Across the Lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
This handbook helps readers to both understand and craft policies to aid the successful acculturation of immigrants in the US. It is an excellent road map for researchers in immigration and education, as well as educational and developmental psychologists, sociologists, economists, and public policy...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
This volume focuses on our understanding of the reading comprehension of adolescents in a high stakes academic environment. Leading researchers share their most current research on each issue, covering theory and empirical research from a range of specializations, including various content areas,...
Cognitive Load Theory
A Special Issue of educational Psychologist
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
The papers of this special issue demonstrate that cognitive load theory provides the framework for investigations into cognitive processes and instructional design. The genesis of Cognitive Load Theory emerged from an international symposium organized at the bi-annual conference of the European Association...
School Consultation for Student Success
A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Featuring an evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral framework for delivering collaborative consultation in K-12 schools, this new book promotes the idea of equitable educational opportunities for all students. Strategies for promoting non-cognitive skills in students, career and college readiness, and...
Rethinking Learning in an Age of Digital Fluency
Is being digitally tethered a new learning nexus?
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
"This is a book that I am going to have to own, and will work to find contexts in which to recommend. It cuts obliquely through so many important domains of evidence and scholarship that it cannot but be a valuable stimulus" -Hamish Macleod, University of Edinburgh
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by P. Karen Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Classroom discussion is a concept familiar across the field of education and is often employed to support students’ comprehension of text. Edited by a leading expert on classroom discussion, this book situates the topic within the broader context of educational psychology research and theory and...
Learning Across Sites
New Tools, Infrastructures and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
The ever evolving, technology-intensive nature of the twenty-first century workplace has caused an acceleration in the division of labour, whereby work practices are becoming highly specialised and learning and the communication of knowledge is in a constant state of flux. This poses a challenge...
School Counselling in a Chinese Context
Supporting Students in Need in Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
School Counselling in a Chinese Context discusses research in school counselling in the Chinese context of Hong Kong schools and various educational settings, and provides a contextualized understanding of counselling issues. This book highlights key contextual conditions for counselling in Hong Kong...
Peer Counselling in Schools
A Time to Listen
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Originally published in 1996, this book is about the role of peer-helping in alleviating interpersonal difficulties among young people in school settings. It is based on real-life experience on the part of the two editors and their contributors in training and developing peer-counselling services...
Mind, Brain and Technology
Learning in the Age of Emerging Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
As technology becomes increasingly integrated into our society, cultural expectations and needs are changing. Social understanding, family roles, organizational skills, and daily activities are all adapting to the demands of ever-present technology, causing changes in human brain, emotions, and behaviors....