Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
STEM and Social Justice: Teaching and Learning in Diverse Settings
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
This volume focuses on selected innovative programs designed to augment the science, engineering, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce through increasing and enhancing the participation of under-represented groups. The programs span the STEM career pathway—primary, secondary, and tertiary...
Personality, Stress, and Coping
Implications for Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Nearly all chapters in this volume are contemporary original research on personality, stress, and coping in educational contexts. The research spans primary, secondary, and tertiary education. Research participants are students and teachers. The volume brings together contributions from the United States,...
Implementation Fidelity in Education Research
Designer and Evaluator Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Implementation science is an important and underrepresented topic in the literature of educational research, despite the fact that it is inextricably tied to education policy and improvement. Implementation fidelity (the degree to which a program or intervention is delivered as planned) is, in particular,...
Building Autonomous Learners
Perspectives from Research and Practice using Self-Determination Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
This edited work presents a collection of papers on motivation research in education around the globe. Pursuing a uniquely international approach, it also features selected research studies conducted in Singapore under the auspices of the Motivation in Educational Research Lab, National Institute...
Collaboration in Teacher Education
Examples from the Context of Mathematics Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This book systematically explores and reflects on a variety of issues related to collaborative mathematics teacher education practice and research – such as classroom coaching, mentoring or co-learning agreements - highlighting the evolution and implications of collaborative enterprises in different...
Envisioning the Future of Online Learning
Selected Papers from the International Conference on e-Learning 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This book shares insights into the various ways technology can be used for educational purposes, utilizing an approach suitable for both novice and advanced practitioners in this niche area. It features selected papers presented at the International Conference on e-Learning 2015 (ICeL 2015), where...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Cognitive style, a psychological construct, characterizes individual differences in styles of perceiving, remembering, thinking and judging. Originally published in 1990, this volume explores important findings emerging from contemporary research on cognitive style in young children and the implications...
Verbal Protocols in Literacy Research
Nature of Global Reading Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
This volume offers an updated analysis of the methodology of reading and reading research since 1995, when the landmark book Verbal Protocols of Reading: The Nature of Constructively Responsive Reading by Michael Pressley and Peter Afflerbach was published. It offers a thorough cross-analysis of the...
by Ference Marton, Shirley Booth
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This book stems from more than 25 years of systematic research into the experience of learning undertaken by a research team trying to account for the obvious differences between more or less successful instances of learning in educational institutions. The book offers an answer in terms of the discovery...
by Yuhong Jiang
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive, up-to-date review of the recent professional developments of teachers of English in the western region of China in the context of English language teaching reform and teacher education reform. It discusses a wealth of theories, frameworks, qualitative case studies...
Students with Intellectual Disabilities
Insights, Implications and Recommendations
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
This book investigates the self-concept of the students with intellectual disabilities who were placed in specialist and mainstream educational settings in South Australia. It gains insights into what students with intellectual disabilities felt about themselves and their achievements across the different...
Children, Dogs and Education
Caring for, Learning Alongside, and Gaining Support from Canine Companions
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This book brings together authoritative information about the child/dog bond as it is manifested with family dogs, visiting therapy dogs, and service dogs trained to assist children with disabilities. Despite the widely accepted view that participating in a dog’s care and interacting with dogs in...
Dialogic Pedagogy
The Importance of Dialogue in Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth theoretical perspective on dialogue in teaching. It explores the philosophy of dialogism as a social theory of language and explains its importance in teaching and learning. Departing from the more traditional teacher-led mode of teacher–student communication,...
Re-Assembly Required
Critical Autoethnography and Spiritual Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Entering the academy as an older woman, the author had not foreseen the challenges that awaited her when she left behind a successful career as a public school Spanish teacher/department head to pursue a Ph.D. She took for granted her position of power and privilege in an educational setting, not...