Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
by Kathy Hall, Alicia Curtin, Vanessa Rutherford
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
This ground breaking book is unique in bringing together two perspectives on learning - sociocultural theory and neuroscience. Drawing on both perspectives, it foregrounds important developments in our understanding of what learning is, where and how learning occurs and what we can do to understand...
Language and Communication in Mathematics Education
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
This book considers some of the outstanding questions regarding language and communication in the teaching and learning of mathematics – an established theme in mathematics education research, which is growing in prominence. Recent research has demonstrated the wide range of theoretical and methodological...
Knowledge and Interaction
A Synthetic Agenda for the Learning Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Decades of research in the cognitive and learning sciences have led to a growing recognition of the incredibly multi-faceted nature of human knowing and learning. Up to now, this multifaceted nature has been visible mostly in distinct and often competing communities of researchers. From a purely scientific...
by Phillip Gammage
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The book provides a synthesis of a broadly-based social-psychology of education and bridges the gap between theory and practice in education by emphasising the relationship between research and actuality. The author discusses the major issues in childhood socialisation relating to schooling, achievement...
No Small Lives
Handbook of North American Early Women Adult Educators, 19251950
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
No Small Lives: Handbook of North American Early Women Adult Educators, 19251950 contains the stories of 26 North American women who were active in the field of adult education sometime between the years of 1925 and 1950. Generally, women’s contributions have been omitted from the field’s histories....
Dancing to Learn
The Brain's Cognition, Emotion, and Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Dancing to Learn: Cognition, Emotion, and Movement explores the rationale for dance as a medium of learning to help engage educators and scientists to explore the underpinnings of dance, and dancers as well as members of the general public who are curious about new ways of comprehending dance. Among...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
In a world plagued by enormous, complex problems requiring long-range vision and interdisciplinary insights, the need to attend to the influence of dogmatic thinking on the development of high ability and creative intelligence is pressing. This volume introduces the problem of dogmatism broadly, explores...
Vygotsky’s Notebooks
A Selection
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
This book consists of previously unpublished manuscripts by Vygotsky found in the first systematic study of Vygotsky’s family archive. The notebooks and scientific diaries gathered in this volume represent all periods of Vygotsky’s scientific life, beginning with the earliest manuscript, entitled...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
What are the risks and benefits of non-parental care for young children?
What are the short- and long-term effects of academically vs. play-focused environments for learning?
How and when should we teach reading?
What are the purposes of Education?
What is...
Enhancing the Quality of Learning
Dispositions, Instruction, and Learning Processes
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
High quality learning is extensive, well integrated, deep, and supports the use of knowledge in new situations that require adaptation of what has been learned previously. This book reviews current research on the nature of high quality learning and the factors that facilitate or inhibit it. The book...
by John Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
The concept of ‘normality’ or mental health is a difficult one to define, but educators and social psychologists must have a clear definition of it in order to proceed with practical work.
In this stimulating and informative book, originally published in 1968, Mr Wilson discusses the idea...
Come rendere più efficace la comunicazione
Tre risorse fondamentali per superare le problematiche comunicative: accogliere, contenere e trasformare
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Questo libro è dedicato alle “tre capacità buone” che possiamo mettere nelle relazioni sia quando funzionano, ma ancor più quando si fanno difficili, diventano luoghi di malinteso e negatività. Tre risorse fondamentali per superare le problematiche comunicative: accogliere, contenere e trasformare.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
The time is right for this comprehensive, state-of-the-art Handbook that analyzes, integrates, and summarizes theoretical advances and research findings on adult development and learning - a rapidly growing field reflecting demographic shifts toward an aging population in Western societies. Featuring...
by Kirke Olson
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Improving student learning with the tools of neuroscience and mindfulness.
How is expanding students’ strengths more effective than improving their weaknesses? Why is creating a school where staff and students feel safe necessary for learning? How can anchoring with simple mindfulness practices...