Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
Living Life @ Its Best
Where Faith and Emotional Intelligence Intersect
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Over the past 25 years of psychological research, emotional intelligence has been shown to play a crucial role in our relationships, productivity, performance, job satisfaction, and a lifestyle based on faith. Essentially, emotional intelligence is the basis of positive productivity, educational achievement,...
Everyday Matters in Science and Mathematics
Studies of Complex Classroom Events
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
This book re-examines the dichotomy between the everyday and the disciplinary in mathematics and science education, and explores alternatives to this opposition from points of view grounded in the close examination of complex classroom events. It makes the case that students' everyday experience and...
Barriers to Learning
The Case for Integrated Mental Health Services in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
A key concern for educators, administrators, professional support services personnel, parents and policy makers are barriers to learning, particularly student mental health. Statistics reveal that up to 20 percent of children and youth have mental health issues and up to 80 percent do not receive...
The Unified Learning Model
How Motivational, Cognitive, and Neurobiological Sciences Inform Best Teaching Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
This is a book about how humans learn. Our focus is on classroom learning although the principles are, as the name of this book indicates, universal. We are concerned with learning from pre-school to post-graduate. We are concerned with most bu- ness, industrial and military training. We do not address...
by Joseph Frantiska, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
This brief discusses and explains how an educator can use various tools (Use Case, IPO diagrams, flowcharts, entity-relationship diagrams, information mapping) to help visualize how a learning environment will work. Such tools were originally developed for use by software engineers but as the complexity...
Parents of Children with Autism
An Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
In a readable and highly accessible ethnographic account that is shaped by the stories of families and the voices of parents, De Wolfe examines how parents of children with autism navigate the educational and medical systems, understand their own and their children's bodies, and support and educate one another.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
The term used in the title of this volume--thinking practices--evokes questions that the authors of the chapters within it begin to answer: What are thinking practices? What would schools and other learning settings look like if they were organized for the learning of thinking practices? Are thinking...
Computers as Metacognitive Tools for Enhancing Learning
A Special Issue of Educational Psychologist
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Quiet Desperation
The Effects of Competition in School on Abused and Neglected Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
With standardized testing and predetermined subgroups garnering the attention of educational leaders, abused and neglected children have fallen deeper into the crevice of the system. For years these children have been ignored, save the obvious, visible bruises or child-initiated confessions. Because...
Inteligencias múltiples en el aula
Guía práctica para educadores
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Thomas Armstrong actualiza su guía práctica para educadores e incorpora los resultados de las investigaciones llevadas a cabo por Gardner y muchos otros investigadores. Incluye información sobre la octava inteligencia (la naturalista), un capítulo sobre una posible novena (la existencial), e información...
by Claudia Fanti
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 2, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 2, 2014
Un racconto “storico” che può essere d’aiuto alle nuove leve di docenti affinché esse si riapproprino consapevolmente del loro presente conoscendo le trasformazioni-deformazioni subite dalla scuola. Il governo Renzi propone "La Buona Scuola" e annuncia ennesimi rivolgimenti epocali....
by Franca Pinto Minerva, Maria Vinella
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Educare alla creatività significa sollecitare il pensiero ad andare oltre le soluzioni abituali, a formulare interrogativi nuovi, a ribaltare processi consolidati, a guardare il mondo da più punti di vista.Oltre a una approfondita introduzione teorica, questo libro propone laboratori ispirati agli...
Schulratgeber ADHS
Ein Leitfaden für LehrerInnen
Language: German
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In fast jeder Schulklasse gibt es unaufmerksame, impulsive und hyperaktive SchülerInnen. Doch was steckt eigentlich hinter der Diagnose ADHS und wie können LehrerInnen im Unterricht damit umgehen? Die Autorin liefert kompaktes Basiswissen für Lehrkräfte, die SchülerInnen mit ADHS unterrichten....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Cases of Teachers’ Data Use addresses applications of student data beyond theoretical, school-, and district-level examinations by presenting case studies of teachers’ data use in practice. Within the context of data-driven education reform policies, the authors examine the effective and ineffective...