Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Schools
A Tiered Approach to Youth Mental Health Services
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
In recent years, many U.S. schools have implemented tiered models of support to address a range of student needs, both academic and behavioral, while cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has simultaneously gained popularity as an effective means of supporting the mental health needs of students. *Cognitive...
The Construction Zone
Working for Cognitive Change in School
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 1989
In its description of several years of painstaking classroom observations and carefully crafted experimental interventions, the 'construction zone' makes clear the cleavage lines between the everyday requirements of classroom teaching and the practice of experimental psychologists. The best intentions...
by Jeffrey C. Levy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Adaptive Learning and the Human Condition presents the basic principles of classical (Pavlovian) and instrumental (Skinnerian) conditioning in a more coherent and expansive manner than is the case in other textbooks. Learning is defined as an adaptive process through which individuals acquire the...
Counseling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
Theory and Practice for School and Clinical Settings
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
A comprehensive, theory-based approach to working with young clients in both school and clinical settings
Counseling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents, Fifth Edition provides mental health professionals and students with state-of-the-art theory and practical guidance for major...
Transactional Psychology of Education
Toward a Strong Version of the Social
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Toward the end of his life, the Russian psychologist L.S. Vygotsky turned away from his earlier work that he has become famous for only to sow the seeds for a new theory. In this theory, affect was to play a central role, there was to be a primacy of social relations, and anything mental (mind, thought,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The goal of this Handbook is to describe the current assessment strategies and related best practices to professionals who serve individuals from diverse cultures or those who have difficulty using the English language. It will be a valuable resource for school psychologists, special educators, speech...
Subjectivity within Cultural-Historical Approach
Theory, Methodology and Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
This book offers a theoretical and epistemological-methodological framework as an alternative approach to the instrumental-descriptive methodology that has prevailed in psychology to date. It discusses the differences between the proposed approach and other theoretical and methodological positions,...
by Darrell S. Rudmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Learning and Memory provides students with a clear, balanced, and integrated presentation of major theoretical perspectives foundational to the study of human learning and memory. Author Darrell Rudmann uses an engaging personal writing style appropriate for students with little or no previous background...
Parents and Children
A First Book on the Psychology of Child Development and Training
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
By his wide influence as author and teacher C.W. Valentine had established himself as a leading authority in this country on child psychology applied to early training. Originally published in 1953, this was a book for parents who need help and advice in bringing up their children and who were puzzled...
by Zhu Yongxin
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
“Education is a process of inheritance and innovation. Hence, it is important for China to research and learn from educational experiences in other countries.” —Zhu Yongxin
One of China’s most renowned scholars, Professor Zhu Yongxin has been at the forefront of educational experiment,...
From Socrates to Summerhill and Beyond
Towards a Philosophy of Education for Personal Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In From Socrates to Summerhill and Beyond: Towards a Philosophy of Education for Personal Responsibility, Ronald Swartz offers an evolving development of fallible, liberal democratic, self?governing educational philosophies. He suggests that educators can benefit from having dialogues about questions...
by Biesta, Burbules
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
This volume offers an overview of the pragmatic understanding of knowledge and the acquisition of knowledge, and its implications for the conduct of educational research. Pragmatism and Educational Research focuses primarily on the work of John Dewey, and examines the relationship between pragmatism...
Rudolf Steiner
The Relevance of Waldorf Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
This book covers Rudolf Steiner’s biography, presented from an educational point of view and also unfolds the different aspects of Steiner’s educational thought in Waldorf Education. His point of view is unique in that it relates education to a wide horizon of different contexts, such as social,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The aim of this volume entitled Digital Technologies: Sustainable Innovations for improving Teaching and Learning is to contribute in the global discussion on digital technologies as the means to foster sustainable educational innovations for improving the teaching, learning and assessment from K-12...