Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
Cognition, Education, and Multimedia
Exploring Ideas in High Technology
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Computers have become a topic of concern, debate, argument, dogmatism, and inquiry among a variety of people who are interested in the fate and effectiveness of the educational system. This book presents working hypotheses of ways in which computers may fit into and/or transform classroom education....
Transitions to Early Care and Education
International Perspectives on Making Schools Ready for Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Transitions to new educational experiences are a universal rite of passage encountered by children worldwide. This volume in the Educating the Young Child: Advances in Theory and Research, Implications for Practice series provides early childhood educators with a resource that focuses on the transitions...
by Antonia Darder
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
One of the most influential educational philosophers of our times, Paulo Freire contributed to a revolutionary understanding of education as an empowering and democratizing force in the lives of the disenfranchised. In this deeply personal introduction to the man and his ideas, Antonia Darder reflects...
by Qinhua Zheng, Li Chen, Daniel Burgos
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
This book aims at discussing the development of MOOCs in China in relation to MOOCs in other countries or areas. Based on the history of MOOCs, we summarize and compare the development of MOOCs in China and other countries with empirical evidence from a comprehensive investigation about MOOCs in Asian,...
by Thomas L. Good, Alyson L. Lavigne
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Looking in Classrooms uses educational, psychological, and social science theories and classroom-based research to teach future classroom teachers about the complexities and demands of classroom instruction. While maintaining the core approach of the first ten editions, the book has been thoroughly...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
This book describes the current state of the art of various types of immersive learning: in research, in practice, and in the marketplace. It discusses advanced approaches in the design and development for various forms of immersive learning environments, and also the emerging innovations in assessment...
Motivation for Achievement
Possibilities for Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Understanding student and teacher motivation and developing strategies to foster motivation for students at all levels of performance are essential to effective teaching. This text is designed to help prospective and practicing teachers achieve these goals. Its premise is that current research and...
by Stephen Walker, Len Barton
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First published in 1983, Gender, Class and Education is a collection of papers that formed presentations at the Westhill Sociology of Education Conference in January 1982, and is the fifth such collection to emerge from the annual conference. The conference theme, ‘Race, Class and Gender’, was...
Slow Looking
The Art and Practice of Learning Through Observation
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Slow Looking provides a robust argument for the importance of slow looking in learning environments both general and specialized, formal and informal, and its connection to major concepts in teaching, learning, and knowledge. A museum-originated practice increasingly seen as holding wide educational...
An Anthropology of Learning
On Nested Frictions in Cultural Ecologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This book has one explicit purpose: to present a new theory of cultural learning in organisations which combines practice-based learning with cultural models - a cognitive anthropological schema theory of taken-for-granted connections - tied to the everyday meaningful use of artefacts. The understanding...
by Willy Ardian Renandya, Michael Power, George Martin Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
This book reminds us teachers about all the little things we can do to be more student-centric. It shows teachers how to “walk the walk,” and shows teacher educators how to guide colleagues along a student-centered path. The book examines why we should and how we can promote student-student interaction...
Designing Learning for Tablet Classrooms
Innovations in Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The versatile, cost-effective technology of the tablet computer has proved to be a good fit with the learning capabilities of today's students. Not surprisingly, in more and more classrooms, the tablet has replaced not only traditional print materials but the desktop computer and the laptop as well.
Designing...
Creative Contradictions in Education
Cross Disciplinary Paradoxes and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Creative Contradictions in Education is a provocative collection of essays by international experts who tackle difficult questions about creativity in education from a cross-disciplinary perspective. The contributors to this volume examine and provide fresh insights into the tensions and contradictions...
Thinking Skills for the Digital Generation
The Development of Thinking and Learning in the Age of Information
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This important text synthesizes the state of knowledge related to thinking and technology and provides strategies for helping young people cultivate thinking skills required to navigate the new digital landscape. The rise of technology has resulted in new ways of searching and communicating information...