Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
This volume reflects the multiplicity of perspectives in the theory and practice of creativity, while it is broadly accepted that the dynamism of humanity’s responses to our evolving scientific, social and environmental needs depends on our creativity. It examines the central issues that animate...
The Developing Child in the 21st Century
A global perspective on child development
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Offering a sociocultural approach to education and learning, this fascinating exploration of childhood provides an in-depth understanding of how children make sense of the world and the people in it. Examining the ways in which children express their thoughts, feelings and actively generate meaning...
Cultural-Historical Approaches to Studying Learning and Development
Societal, Institutional and Personal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
This collection of papers examines key ideas in cultural-historical approaches to children’s learning and development and the cultural and institutional conditions in which they occur. The collection is given coherence by a focus on the intellectual contributions made by Professor Mariane Hedegaard...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Do our expectancies about ourselves and about others have any effect on our actual experiences? Over fifty years of research studies suggest not only that this is the case, but also that our expectancies can shape other people’s experience in different contexts. In some cases they can help, but...
Learning to Breathe
A Mindfulness Curriculum for Adolescents to Cultivate Emotion Regulation, Attention, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Disruptive behavior in the classroom, poor academic performance, out-of-control emotions: if you work with adolescents, you are well-aware of the challenges this age group presents. What if there was a way to calm these students down and arm them with the mindfulness skills needed to really excel...
Quality Activities in Center-Based Programs for Adults with Autism
Moving from Nonmeaningful to Meaningful
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Quality Activities in Center-Based Programs for Adults with Autism: Moving from Nonmeaningful to Meaningful describes what constitutes meaningful versus nonpurposeful activities for adults with autism and other severe disabilities in a classroom or center-based program. Then this step-by-step guide...
WAIS-IV Clinical Use and Interpretation
Scientist-Practitioner Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Published in August of 2008, WAIS–IV is the most widely used intelligence test for adults in the world. Substantive changes were made to the WAIS-IV from the WAIS-III leaving clinicians with questions as to how to use and interpret the measure effectively. Written by the creators of the new test,...
by Anat Zohar
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2004
How can educators bridge the gap between "big" ideas about teaching students to think and educational practice? This book addresses this question by a unique combination of theory, field experience and elaborate educational research. Its basic idea is to look at science instruction with...
Simulation and Learning
A Model-Centered Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The main idea of this book is that to comprehend the instructional potential of simulation and to design effective simulation-based learning environments, one has to consider both what happens inside the computer and inside the students' minds. The framework adopted to do this is model-centered learning,...
Innovating Genesis
Microgenesis and the Constructive Mind in Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Cultural psychology is currently in a phase of rapid growth. Innovating Genesis is an example of how the most central aspect of any science—its methodology—undergoes revolutionary transformation. Yet in this book we see careful continuity with the past of the discipline. The orientation to study...
An Introduction to Consultee-Centered Consultation in the Schools
A Step-by-Step Guide to the Process and Skills
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Drawing on historical writings about mental health consultation and on contemporary research and theory, Jonathan Sandoval lucidly explains the consultee-centered approach to consultation. The book provides an expert foundation on which to build a training program for future school-based consultants....
by Sara A. Whitcomb
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Generally recognized as the standard work in its field, Behavioral, Social, and Emotional Assessment of Children and Adolescents is a comprehensive guide for conducting conceptually sound, culturally responsive, and ecologically oriented assessments of students’ social and emotional behavior. Written...
Educational Innovation in Economics and Business II
In Search of Quality
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume consists of the revised versions I of a selection of papers of the second EDINEB conference, held in Uppsala from 17-19 August 1995. As with the fIrst edition, the conference and these proceedings are rooted in the participant's involvement with 'EDucational INnovation in Economics and...
The Scientific Study of Personal Wisdom
From Contemplative Traditions to Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
The rich and diverse contributions to this volume span a wide variety of disciplines, from psychology and philosophy to neuroscience, by some of the most influential scholars in the emerging science of personal wisdom. As such, it is a collection of essential readings and the first publication to...