Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
by Li-fang Zhang, Robert J. Sternberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book provides an up-to-date, panoramic picture of the field of intellectual styles through describing, analyzing, and integrating the major theoretical and research works on the topic. Readers will gain a broad understanding of the field--its nature, origins, historical development, theories,...
by Mark Katz
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Understanding resiliency and student success by studying people who succumbed to risk but later triumphed.
A number of people who failed in school currently enjoy meaningful and successful lives. They include, though they are by no means limited to, those with attention and executive function...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) involves children in school consciously assisting others to learn, and in so doing learning more effectively themselves. It encompasses peer tutoring, peer modeling, peer education, peer counseling, peer monitoring, and peer assessment, which are differentiated from other...
The Dark Side of Leadership
A Psycho- Spiritual Approach Towards Understanding the Origins of Personality Dysfunctions, Derailment and the Restoration of Personality.
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
This book highlights the fact that leaders do indeed affect the performance of organizations or the well-being of society for better or worseto cast either a shadow or light by the exercise of their leadership. Modern psychology with its theories of human behavior, which does not acknowledge the existence...
The Infant Mind
Origins of the Social Brain
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Integrating cutting-edge research from multiple disciplines, this book provides a dynamic and holistic picture of the developing infant mind. Contributors explore the transactions among genes, the brain, and the environment in the earliest years of life. The volume probes the neural correlates of...
by Jason Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Wellness is an important goal of counseling work, but the limits of promoting it are reached more quickly for individuals living in disadvantaged circumstances. How then can counselors be effective in a context that produces and reproduces structural inequality?
In Counseling Diversity in Context,...
by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Establishing the parameters and goals of the new field of mind, brain, and education science.
A groundbreaking work, Mind, Brain, and Education Science explains the new transdisciplinary academic field that has grown out of the intersection of neuroscience, education, and psychology. The trend...
Spirit and Form
On the True Meaning of Individuality and the Art of Psychological Sculpting
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Each individual is unique, and that uniqueness should be cultivated. In Spirit and Form, author and psychologist Dr. Benjamin M. Goldberg offers a thorough analysis of individuality and its development.
Formed during thirty-five years of study, Goldberg has developed the art of psychological...
Education Studies in Ireland
the Key Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
A unique book providing a critical overview of the foundation disciplines of education. This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the five key disciplines that form the foundation of the study of education: Philosophy of Education, History of Education, Sociology of Education, Curriculum Studies, Psychology of Education.
Melanie Klein
Early Analysis, Play, and the Question of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015
This volume introduces the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to the general field of education and traces her theories of mental life as an emotional situation, through to problems of self/other relations in our own time. The case is made for Klein’s relevance and the difficulties her theories pose to...
Thought Field Therapy
The Definitive Guide for Successful Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Thought Field Therapy - the Definitive Guide for Successful Practice gives you fast, accurate help and informed insight about this powerful energy psychology. It is an absolute must for everyone who is practicing TFT and for those who are intrigued and want to know more. With initial clear psychological...
by Bob Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Play is a crucial component in the development of all children. In this fully updated and revised edition of his classic playwork text, Bob Hughes explores the complexities of children’s play, its meaning and purpose, and argues that adult-free play is essential for the psychological well-being...
Inventing Adolescence
The Political Psychology of Everyday Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
There is a widespread and deep awareness that all is not well with American public education nor with the students, educators, and administrators who are charged with making citizens literate. Joseph Adelson's work has gained considerable prominence in this ongoing reevaluation. Writing with force,...
by Julian G. Elliott, Elena L. Grigorenko
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
The Dyslexia Debate examines how we use the term 'dyslexia' and questions its efficacy as a diagnosis. While many believe that a diagnosis of dyslexia will shed light on a reader's struggles and help identify the best form of intervention, Julian G. Elliott and Elena L. Grigorenko show that it adds...