Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Since the first edition was published in 1988, the role of crisis intervention and prevention has become central to mental health professionals working in the schools. Disasters such as hurricane Katrina, terrorist attacks both in this country and around the world, and various school shootings have...
by Richard E. Mayer
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
Although verbal learning offers a powerful tool, Mayer explores ways of going beyond the purely verbal. Recent advances in graphics technology and information technology have prompted new efforts to understand the potential of multimedia learning as a means of promoting human understanding. In this...
by Josh Sauder
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Fifty Shades of Grey has been one of the top selling novels of all time. Many female readers drool over the male protagonist, Christian Grey, and are engrossed in the storyline. Us men, on the other hand, are left there dumbfounded by why this novel could possibly be so popular, since many of us do...
Young, Gifted and Black
Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Young, Gifted, and Black is a unique joint effort by three leading African-American scholars to radically reframe the debates swirling around the achievement of African-American students in school.
In three separate but allied essays, Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa Hilliard place students'...
My Growth Mindset Journal
A Teacher’s Workbook to Reflect on Your Practice, Cultivate Your Mindset, Spark New Ideas and Inspire Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Authors of the bestselling The Growth Mindset Coach which has shipped over 120,000 copies since August 2016
The follow up book, The Growth Mindset Playbook, shipped 10,000 copies in its first 5 weeks
A unique and interactive companion book that allows teachers to reflect and journal...
Executive Skills and Reading Comprehension
A Guide for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
How do K-12 students become self-regulated learners who actively deploy comprehension strategies to make meaning from texts? This cutting-edge guide is the first book to highlight the importance of executive skills for improving reading comprehension. Chapters review the research base for particular...
Beyond Knowledge
Extracognitive Aspects of Developing High Ability
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
Some aspects of giftedness and creativity cannot be explained by cognitive, developmental, personality, or social approaches considered in isolation. At the intersection of these approaches is something invisible, deeply hidden, but at the same time very important--the extracognitive facets of high...
by Enzo Catarsi
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
The volume publishes some essays illustrating experiences which attempted to promote reading with very young children in nurseries and infant schools, as part of a project on the picture books by Eric Carle, a well-known American illustrator of children's books. In particular, this initiative took...
by Robert J. Sternberg, Linda Jarvin, Elena L. Grigorenko
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
This book is a scholarly overview of the modern concepts, definitions, and theories of intellectual giftedness, and of past and current developments in the field of gifted education. The authors consider, in some detail, the roles of intelligence, creativity, and wisdom in giftedness and the interaction...
The Systems Model of Creativity
The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
This first volume of the Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi represents his work on Art and Creativity. Starting with his seminal 1964 study on creativity up to his 2010 publication in Newsweek, the volume spans over four decades of research and writing and clearly shows Csikszentmihalyi’s...
Applications of Flow in Human Development and Education
The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
The third volume of the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers his work on the application of flow in areas that go beyond the field of leisure where the concept was first applied. Based on his personal experience with schooling and learning, as well as that of many others and contrary...
by Aaron Rabinowitz
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Judaic Spiritual Psychotherapy is in the contemporary mode of utilizing the profound insights present in spiritual literature for psychotherapeutic use. Jewish spiritual writings are a rich source that encompasses three thousand years of scholarship and experience dealing with emotional problems....
Handbook of School Counseling for Students with Gifts and Talents
Critical Issues for Programs and Services
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The Handbook of School Counseling for Students With Gifts and Talents: Critical Issues for Programs and Services provides the definitive overview of research on the general knowledge that has been amassed regarding the psychology of gifted students, introducing the reader to the varied conceptions...
Theories of Attachment
An Introduction to Bowlby, Ainsworth, Gerber, Brazelton, Kennell, and Klaus
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Topic commands a large readership 2. Ideal resource for new and established early childhood professionals 3. Potential for course adoption in infant/child development and child psychology classes as a supplemental text