Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The Handbook of Research-Based Practices for Educating Students with Intellectual Disability provides an integrated, transdisciplinary overview of research-based practices for teaching students with intellectual disability. This comprehensive volume emphasizes education across life stages, from early...
Hope and Healing in Urban Education
How Urban Activists and Teachers are Reclaiming Matters of the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Hope and Healing in Urban Education proposes a new movement of healing justice to repair the damage done by the erosion of hope resulting from structural violence in urban communities. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from around the country, this book chronicles how teacher activists employ healing...
Knowledge under Construction
The Importance of Play in Developing Children's Spatial and Geometric Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
Knowledge under Construction investigates how young children develop spatial, geometric, and scientific thinking skills-particularly those associated with architecture. Based on original research and analysis of videotapes of children's play with blocks, the authors' findings suggest that such play...
A Companion to Wittgenstein on Education
Pedagogical Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
This book, bringing together contributions by forty-five authors from fourteen countries, represents mostly new material from both emerging and seasoned scholars in the field of philosophy of education. Topics range widely both within and across the four parts of the book: Wittgenstein’s biography...
by Ronaldo Mota, David Scott
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Our principal concern in this book is to understand three important ideas: learning, technology and innovation, and to examine these ideas and the relationships between them in situ; that is, we examine a number of cases of learning technologies in action in two countries, England and Brazil. The...
The Claims of Parenting
Reasons, Responsibility and Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Many sociological, historical and cultural stories can be and have already been told about why it is that parents in post-industrial, western societies face an often overwhelming array of advice on how to bring up their children. At the same time, there have been several philosophical treatments of...
Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education
Perspectives on Professional Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book offers a collection of original papers showing how Higher education institutions have coped with changing the language of instruction. It points out that Higher education institutions have undergone radical change in the past decades; of which the shift to English-medium instruction, as...
Links Between Beliefs and Cognitive Flexibility
Lessons Learned
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
With the world and its structures becoming ever more complex, and the nature of future employment becoming ever more unpredictable, the notion of ‘cognitive flexibility’ has a high profile in educational and psychological debate. The contributions in this volume analyze the nature of cognitive...
Promoting Emotional Education
Engaging Children and Young People with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
Unlike IQ, emotional competence can be nurtured and developed, and is a key factor in physical and mental health, social competence, academic achievement and other aspects in the personal and social development of children and young people.
Promoting Emotional Education connects with the contemporary...
Introducing Freire
A guide for students, teachers and practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
The famous Brazilian educator Paulo Freire has influenced educators, teachers and students in a broad tapestry of contexts and countries, as he challenged conventional thinking on how teachers ought to teach and learners ought to learn. By making his ideas accessible and relevant, this insightful...
The Mathematics Teacher in the Digital Era
An International Perspective on Technology Focused Professional Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2013
This volume addresses the key issue of the initial education and lifelong professional learning of teachers of mathematics to enable them to realize the affordances of educational technology for mathematics. With invited contributions from leading scholars in the field, this volume contains a blend...
Creating Performances for Teaching and Learning
A Practice Session for Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This book uses the metaphors of practice spaces and practice sessions to demonstrate the connection between creative and performance practices, and critical pedagogy. It offers a conceptual framework for using performance and creative practices as starting points for developing philosophies and practices...
Father Involvement in Young Children’s Lives
A Global Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
This vital addition to Springer’s ‘Educating the Young Child’ series addresses gaps in the literature on father involvement in the lives of young children, a topic with a fast-rising profile in today’s world of female breadwinners and single-parent households. While the significant body of...
Cyberbullying Prevention and Response
Expert Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Just as the previous generation was raised in front of televisions, adolescents at the turn of the 21st century are being raised in an internet-enabled world where blogs, social networking, and instant messaging are competing with face-to-face and telephone communication as the dominant means through...