Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
Educational Technology and Narrative
Story and Instructional Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
This volume is the result of a 2016 research symposium sponsored by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) focused on the growing theoretical areas of integrating story and narrative into educational design. Narrative, or storytelling, is often used as a means for understanding,...
by Laboratory for Education and Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
This book explores how traditional institutions of education are affected by the current discourse and practices of ‘learning’; and more specifically, how the evolution towards so-called ‘learning environments’ affects the kind of gathering or association that is staged and configured within...
Differentiated Instruction Made Practical
Engaging the Extremes through Classroom Routines
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Need to decide when, why, and how to differentiate instruction in the classroom? Differentiated Instruction Made Practical introduces teachers to All Learners Learning Every Day (ALL-ED), an easy-to-use framework that enables tailored instruction for every learner. These unique, self-regulated learning...
Using Humor to Maximize Learning
The Links between Positive Emotions and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
What is humor exactly? How do you use it to maximize learning? If it is so important, why is it rarely mentioned in teacher preparation without some clues for finding and using it? The purpose of this book is to affirm, sustain, and encourage educators in the practice of humor not only as a personal...
American Public Education and the Responsibility of its Citizens
Supporting Democracy in the Age of Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Public school systems are central to a flourishing democracy, where children learn how to solve problems together, build shared identities, and come to value justice and liberty for all. However, as citizen support for public schools steadily declines, our democratic way of life is increasingly at...
Motivational Design for Learning and Performance
The ARCS Model Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
It is impossible to control another person’s motivation. But much of the instructor’s job involves stimulating learner motivation, and learning environments should ideally be designed toward this goal. Motivational Design for Learning and Performance introduces readers to the core concepts of...
The Power of the Social Brain
Teaching, Learning, and Interdependent Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“As the authors point out, as a society and in our institutions, we spend almost no time learning how to think, learn, and work together. Thinking with others is its own skill and it is high time people thought about how to optimize this skill. This is exactly what this book seeks to do.” ...
by Phillip T. Slee, Grace Skrzypiec
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This book focuses on well-being at school in association with positive peer relationships and bullying. Taking an integrative and community-based approach, the book outlines the significance of student-school relationships for well-being and emphasizes the importance of school and classroom climate...
Help Seeking in Academic Settings
Goals, Groups, and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Building on Karabenick’s earlier volume on this topic and maintaining its high standards of scholarship and intellectual rigor, Help Seeking in Academic Settings: Goals, Groups, and Contexts brings together contemporary work that is theoretically as well as practically important. It highlights current...
by Gavin T. L. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Assessment is a concept familiar across the field of education and is inherent to the work of professors, administrators, teachers, researchers, journalists, and scholars. A multifaceted and politically charged topic, assessment ranges from informal interactions with learners in classrooms to systematic...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
The chapters contained in the book present a new and exciting set of conceptual tools that will not only allow us to think about transfer in more productive ways, but will also enable the development of educational and measurement tools that will greatly facilitate our ability to educate the children...
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Learning to Read
Culture, Cognition and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Learning to Read brings together different disciplinary perspectives and studies on reading for all those who seek to extend and enrich the current practice, research and policy debates. The breadth of knowledge that underpins pedagogy is a central theme and the book...
Counting and Measuring
An Approach to Number Education in the Infant School
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1961
The teaching of numbers in the primary grades is seen in this book as the foundation of the beginnings of mathematical understanding. Mathematics is taken to be a language, and the aim of its teaching is to make the pupil, so to speak, bilingual, or so to increase his understanding that he is able...
by Susan Louise Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
The book, Autism Perspectives is a short book written to examine twelve mini topics on autism. These topics will help parents as they explore various autism subjects like the referral and assessment process. Parent will find helpful information related to the signs and symptoms of autism and autism...