Educational Psychology category: 2684 books

Nurturing Creativity in the Classroom is a groundbreaking collection of essays by leading scholars, who examine and respond to the tension that many educators face in valuing student creativity but believing that they cannot support it given the curricular constraints of the classroom. Is it possible...

Awareness in Action is a user-friendly text/workbook designed for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing mental health degrees (e.g., counseling, psychology, and social work) and other human relations professions (e.g., medicine, nursing, public administration, and business). It has been used...

"This should be required reading by every school administator, every teacher, every board member and all university faculty involved in the training of teachers. There is no doubt that we need to squeeze all blame, all coerion and all criticism out of any people-related business. Not until we...

Providing a format for a conflict resolution children's group, this guide is invaluable for the group facilitator - the teacher or counsellor in a school or mental health residential treatment program. It explores theoretical background in facilitating a children's group, and includes numerous activities...

The Confident Teacher offers a practical, step-by-step guide to developing the habits, characteristics and pedagogy that will enable you to do the best job possible. It unveils the tacit knowledge of great teachers and combines it with respected research and popular psychology. Covering topics such...

This volume offers very specific illustrations of psychoanalytic ways of thinking and working in both clinical and pedagogical contexts with children. It is designed for professionals who work with infants, children, and adolescents, and who are seeking modes of working that respects emotions, that...

This book is a beginning, a first step, in taking leader development in organizations beyond conventional wisdom toward a scientifically sound research-based set of principles and practices. The authors looked beyond their own academic disciplines to bring to bear accumulated wisdom from researchers who have developed well-established and accepted

Anna Freud was the sixth and last child of Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays. Born in Vienna, she followed the path of her father and contributed to the newly born field of psychoanalysis. She is considered to be one of the founders of psychoanalytic child psychology. 'Psychoanalysis For Teachers And...

A detailed guide to understanding and eliminating worry, fear, depression, and panic attacks. This guide will help you how to deal with your anxiety and the best practices to overcome it. Using medication to combat the issue comes with many unpleasant side effects. That is why this guide focuses...

Yrjö Engeström's exciting approach sees expansive learning as the central mechanism of transformation in societal practices and institutions. For researchers and practitioners in education, this book provides a conceptual and practical toolkit for creating and analyzing expansive learning processes...

¿Qué nos impide sentir que ya somos creativos? La sociedad en la que vivimos nos ha enseñado que ser creativo es sinónimo de despuntar frente a los demás, de ser ingeniosos, ávidos, etc. En realidad, el ser humano es creativo por naturaleza. Cuando cocinamos, cuando recordamos algo, cuando besamos,...

"Debemos saber que aceptar pasivamente un sistema injusto es cooperar con ese sistema y, de ese modo, tener parte en su maldad." - Martin Luther King Jr. El fenómeno del acoso y la violencia entre estudiantes se ha incrementado en frecuencia e intensidad durante los últimos años, al grado...

Autism is a lifelong  neuro-developmental disability  that affects the development of the brain in areas of social interaction and communication.  People with autism have difficulties in communicating and forming relationships with people, in developing language and in using abstract concepts. ...

Renowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, honesty, resilience, and independence. Parents have an important task: figure out who their...