Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
This volume supports the belief that a revised and advanced science education can emerge from the convergence and synthesis of several current scientific and technological activities including examples of research from cognitive science, social science, and other discipline-based educational studies. The anticipated result: the formation of science education as an integrated discipline.
Insights from Research in Science Teaching and Learning
Selected Papers from the ESERA 2013 Conference
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
This book includes studies that represent the state of the art in science education research and convey a sense of the variation in educational traditions around the world. The papers are organized into six main sections: science teaching processes, conceptual understanding, reasoning strategies,...
Inquiry into the Singapore Science Classroom
Research and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
This book offers an insight into the research and practices of science teaching and learning in the Singapore classroom, with particular attention paid to how they map on to science as inquiry. It provides a spectrum of Singapore’s science educational practices through all levels of its education...
How Arts Education Makes a Difference
Research examining successful classroom practice and pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book presents ground-breaking research on the ways the Arts fosters motivation and engagement in both academic and non-academic domains. It reports on mixed method, international research that investigated how the Arts make a difference in the lives of young people. Drawing on the findings of...
Teacher Education
Innovation, Intervention and Impact
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This book, an inaugural publication from the Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA), Teacher Education: Innovation, Intervention and Impact is both a product of, and seeks to contribute to, the changing global and political times in teacher education research. This book marks an historically...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Geographers regard fieldwork as a vital instrument for understanding our world through direct experience, for gathering basic data about this world, and as a fundamental method for enacting geographical education. The range of international geography and educational experts who contributed to this...
Serious Games Analytics
Methodologies for Performance Measurement, Assessment, and Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2015
This volume brings together research on how gameplay data in serious games may be turned into valuable analytics or actionable intelligence for performance measurement, assessment, and improvement. Chapter authors use empirical research methodologies, including existing, experimental, and emerging...
Reconceptualising Learning in the Digital Age
The [Un]democratising Potential of MOOCs
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
This book situates Massive Open Online Courses and open learning within a broader educational, economic and social context. It raises questions regarding whether Massive Open Online Courses effectively address demands to open up access to education by triggering a new education order, or merely represent...
Redesigning Learning for Greater Social Impact
Taylor’s 9th Teaching and Learning Conference 2016 Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
These conference proceedings explore the design of pedagogical intervention and learning cultures, the inclusion of socio-emotional support in teaching and policy, transforming technology to support the social fabric of our institutions, and challenging established beliefs about learning. They clarify...
Creativity and Critique in Online Learning
Exploring and Examining Innovations in Online Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This book explores emerging practices in distance education that have been facilitated by the development of educational technology. The volume examines core themes in distance education including online education at scale, embodiment in online environments, connectivity in online education and the...
Re-imagining Professional Experience in Initial Teacher Education
Narratives of Learning
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
This book takes a fresh look at 'professional experience' in initial teacher education in Australia. Using collaborative narrative methodologies, the authors critically explore the ways in which one faculty of education engages with schools, industry, the teaching profession and government policy...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Problem solving is implicit in the very nature of all science, and virtually all scientists are hired, retained, and rewarded for solving problems. Although the need for skilled problem solvers has never been greater, there is a growing disconnect between the need for problem solvers and the educational...
Metacognition in Science Education
Trends in Current Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Why is metacognition gaining recognition, both in education generally and in science learning in particular? What does metacognition contribute to the theory and practice of science learning?
Metacognition in Science Education discusses emerging topics at the intersection of metacognition...
by Danah Henriksen
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2017
This book focuses on rethinking creativity for 21st century education. The specific emphasis examines the way that creativity spans disciplines, through a set of common thinking skills that the most accomplished thinkers in any field use. These seven transdisciplinary thinking skills are rooted...