Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Informed by the most up-to-date research from around the world, as well as examples of good practice, this handbook analyzes values education in the context of a range of school-based measures associated with student wellbeing. These include social, emotional, moral and spiritual growth – elements...
Helping Nonmainstream Families Achieve Equity Within the Context of School-Based Consulting
A Special Double Issue of the Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
From Brain to Mind
Using Neuroscience to Guide Change in Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
"From Brain to Mind challenges educators to see what children learn from the perspective of neuroscience, and to see what this perspective provides educators.... The metacognition Zull advocates should lead the reader to work through the chapters and come up with ideas about or approaches to education....
Coteaching in International Contexts
Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Coteaching is two or more teachers teaching together, sharing responsibility for meeting the learning needs of students and, at the same time, learning from each other. Working as collaborators on every aspect of instruction, coteachers plan, teach and evaluate lessons together. Over the past decade,...
Research on PISA
Research Outcomes of the PISA Research Conference 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an important part of the OECD's Indicator Programme. It collects data and provides comparative indicators of education systems in OECD member and partner countries. PISA provides datasets of outstanding quality regarding samples, instruments...
Animals and Science Education
Ethics, Curriculum and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
This book discusses how we can inspire today’s youth to engage in challenging and productive discussions around the past, present and future role of animals in science education. Animals play a large role in the sciences and science education and yet they remain one of the least visible topics in...
Need to Kill
Identifying Addictive Serial Killing
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
With an extensive increase in the rate of crime all over the world and especially in America, the need to address the underlying causes responsible for this alarming rise has never been more urgent. Since murder stands at the apex of the crime hierarchy, this book focuses on one of the vilest crimes...
Teach & Thrive
Wisdom from an Urban Teacher's Career Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Teacher burn out contributes to the epidemic of early career exit. At least half of all new K?12 teachers leave the profession by the time they reach their fifth year of teaching. Conversely, there are urban teachers who survive burn out and thrive as career? long educators. This book results from an...
No Laughing Matter
The Value of Humor in Educational Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Educators are not alone in perennially seeking the best leadership practices and applying them to their own leadership behavior. What constitutes effective leadership seems to be on the minds of people everywhere. Recently, there has been some seminal work done with regard to the role of humor in...
Participatory Design for Learning
Perspectives from Practice and Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Participatory Design is a field of research and design that actively engages stakeholders in the processes of design in order to better conceptualize and create tools, environments, and systems that serve those stakeholders. In Participatory Design for Learning: Perspectives from Practice and Research,...
Implementing Cross-Culture Pedagogies
Cooperative Learning at Confucian Heritage Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
During the last two decades Confucian heritage culture countries have widely promoted teaching and learning reforms to advance their educational systems. To skip the painfully long research stage, Confucian heritage culture educators have borrowed Western philosophies and practices with the assumption...
The Teaching Brain
An Evolutionary Trait at the Heart of Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
“A significant contribution to understanding the interaction among teachers, students, the environment, and the content of learning” (Herbert Kohl, education advocate and author).
What is at work in the mind of a five-year-old explaining the game of tag to a new friend? What is going on...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume addresses the important problem of understanding good university teaching, and focuses on the thinking, beliefs, and knowledge, which accompany teachers' actions. It is the first book to address this area and it promises to become a landmark volume in the field - helping us to understand...
21st Century Skills Development Through Inquiry-Based Learning
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
This book presents innovative instructional interventions designed to support inquiry project-based learning as an approach to equip students with 21st century skills. Instructional techniques include collaborative team-based teaching, social constructivist game design and game play, and productive...