Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
Effective Group Work in Primary School Classrooms
The SPRinG Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
This book offers a challenge to traditional approaches to classroom teaching and pedagogy. The SPRinG (Social Pedagogic Research into Groupwork) project, part of a larger research programme on teaching and learning funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), was developed to enhance...
Teaching, Learning, and Visual Literacy
The Dual Role of Visual Representation
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Visual literacy is an increasingly critical skill in a globalizing, digital world. This book addresses the core issues concerning visual literacy in education, underscoring its importance for the instruction of students and educators. Professor Billie Eilam argues that the incorporation of visual...
by Mandy Stern
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
At a time when rates of depression and other mental health problems are increasing significantly among high school students, measures of school attitude and well-being are of central importance to school practitioners. Students with positive attitudes about school experience more beneficial...
Understanding School Transition
What happens to children and how to help them
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
School transition is a life changing event for children - they are rarely faced with such a powerful set of personal and social changes. These underpin the immediate and longer term wellbeing of children, peer groups, teachers and schools. Understanding School Transition provides a most comprehensive,...
Historical Development of Human Cognition
A Cultural-Historical Neuropsychological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
This book addresses a central question: how did cognition emerge in human history? It approaches the question from a cultural-historical, neuropsychological perspective and analyses evidence on the historical origins of cognitive activity; integrates information regarding cross-cultural differences...
Beyond WellBeing
Spirituality and Human Flourishing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This volume arose out of a deep concern to assist people in their struggle to lead a flourishing life. Fractured, stressed, relationally broken and spiritually empty people may instinctively reach for the supposed panacea of happiness. But happiness is often a transitory state. More stable and worthwhile...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Higher education is a high stakes process involving engagement with curricula and often entails coping with the onslaught of assessments and examinations. This process creates a level of intensity that impacts on the student experience in higher education. It is, therefore, important to consider not...
Debunking ADHD
10 Reasons to Stop Drugging Kids for Acting Like Kids
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The time has come for Debunking ADHD and exposing how this invented disorder created to drug children does not exist. Despite unanimous agreement that no test exists to identify ADHD, 6.4 million American children are labeled ADHD. To make matters worse, approximately two-thirds of those children...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Many studies of teacher motivation have been conducted in different contexts over time. However, until fairly recently there has not been a reliable measure available to allow comparisons across samples and settings. This has resulted in an abundance of findings which cannot be directly compared or...
New perspectives on career counseling and guidance in Europe
Building careers in changing and diverse societies
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
In industrialized societies, individuals are facing major challenges that mobilize many of their psychological and social resources. The world of work is changing constantly. Adults have to adapt their technical skills and knowledge continuously. For teenagers and young adults, choosing a vocation...
by Li-fang Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Intellectual styles are individuals' preferred ways of using the abilities that they possess. The extent to which one can change his or her intellectual style is a question of interest to both researchers and the general public. This book presents the first comprehensive and systematic review of existing...
by Wayne P. Anderson, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2013
The Changing Face of Sex is a thorough study of the history of sex by a leading expert in the field of Human Sexuality education. Dr Wayne Anderson has been teaching Human Sexuality for over 50 years. This book chronicles the changes he has witnessed through his own observation and data he has collected...
Becoming Other
From Social Interaction to SelfReflection
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
The research reported in this book is unapologetically Meadian. While the work of George Herbert Mead has been of widespread significance, and his name is often cited, there are in fact few empirical studies that have sought to rigorously instantiate his ideas. This is in part because his theory is abstruse...
by Juan Moisés de la Serna
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 7, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 7, 2018
Hablar de Inteligencia emocional es hacerlo de actualidad en cuanto al desarrollo de la persona, aspecto que ha estado en auge desde hace unas décadas y cuyo ámbito se ha visto útil no sólo en el ámbito personal si no también laboral.
Cada vez son más los estudios que se acumulan sobre los...