Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
Transcendental Learning
The Educational Legacy of Alcott, Emerson, Fuller, Peabody and Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Transcendental Learning discusses the work of five figures associated with transcendentalism concerning their views on education. Alcott, Emerson, Fuller, Peabody and Thoreau all taught at one time and held definite views about education. The book explores these conceptions with chapters on each of...
Cooperative Learning
The Social and Intellectual Outcomes of Learning in Groups
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
This book recognizes the importance of cooperative learning, in contrast to the traditional classroom, as an effective approach to learning. Its coverage of the subject ranges across the educational spectrum, from pre-school years to university, and offers a fresh perspective on a topic that has gained...
Spaces of Teaching and Learning
Integrating Perspectives on Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This integrated collection of perspectives on the spaces of teaching and learning uses ‘learning space’ to place educational practice in context. It considers the complex relationships involved in the design, management and use of contemporary learning spaces. It sheds light on some of the problems...
by Mei-Yee Wong
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
This book examines, from a sociological perspective, teacher-student power relations in classroom learning and teaching. The case study consists of four Hong Kong primary schools—and sixteen classrooms therein—that were selected as research sites to explore the concept of teacher-student power...
The Flipped Classroom
Practice and Practices in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Teaching and learning within higher education continues to evolve with innovative and new practices such as flipped teaching. This book contributes to the literature by developing a much deeper understanding of the complex phenomenon of flipped classroom approaches within higher education. It also...
Activity Systems Analysis Methods
Understanding Complex Learning Environments
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
In the last two decades, there has been growing interest in pursuing theoretical paradigms that capture complex learning situations. Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) is one of several theoretical frameworks that became very popular among educational researchers because it conceptualizes...
Educational Learning and Development
Building and Enhancing Capacity
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Through ten research projects, this book explores the topic of educational learning and development in order to examine issues that are impacting, either positively or negatively, on current research in this area. The authors explore the capacity building potential of the projects and what factors impacted on or assisted their development.
Play from Birth to Twelve
Contexts, Perspectives, and Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
In light of recent standards-based and testing movements, the issue of play in child development has taken on increased meaning for educational professionals and social scientists. This third edition of Play From Birth to Twelve offers comprehensive coverage of what we now know about play and its...
Mindfulness and Learning
Celebrating the Affective Dimension of Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2011
In recent decades, education at all levels has been seriously impoverished by a growing obsession with standards, targets, skills and competences. According to this model, only a circumscribed range of basic cognitive skills and competences are the business of education, whose main role is to provide...
Paranoid Pedagogies
Education, Culture, and Paranoia
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This edited book explores the under-analyzed significance and function of paranoia as a psychological habitus of the contemporary educational and social moment. The editors and contributors argue that the desire for epistemological truth beyond uncertainty characteristic of paranoia continues to profoundly...
Constructing Educational Achievement
A sociocultural perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
International interest focuses on why pupils from East-Asia tend to outperform pupils from the West and scholars have proposed a number of possible explanations to account for these international trends. Using Vygotsky's theory (1978) as a conceptual framework to "construct" school achievement,...
Educational Innovation in Economics and Business
Pedagogy, Technology and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Like previous volumes in the "Educational Innovation in Economics and Business" series, this one is genuinely international in terms of its coverage. It reflects the worldwide interest in, and commitment to, innovation in business education with a view to enhancing the learning experience...
Mobile Learning
Structures, Agency, Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As with television and computers before it, today’s mobile technology challenges educators to respond and ensure their work is relevant to students. What’s changed is that this portable, cross-contextual way of engaging with the world is driving a more proactive approach to learning on the part...
Dialogue and the Development of Children's Thinking
A Sociocultural Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2007
This book draws on extensive research to provide a ground-breaking new account of the relationship between dialogue and children’s learning development. It closely relates the research findings to real-life classrooms, so that it is of practical value to teachers and students concerned that their...