Educational Psychology category: 2684 books

Want to boost your GPA? Taking tests freaking you out? Think it's too late to change career goals? Do you really know how to study, where to study? In Six Secrets to Success in High School and College, the entrepreneurial Wass family, experts in psychological techniques, will guide you out of chaos into...

Letiza, carica di anni ma di elastici pensieri, cerca di sfruttare il luccichio della  moneta del tempo , andando  alla ricerca di nuove parole e di elucubrazioni filosofiche .Così armata di pazienza, seduta a tavolino compie un lavoro minuzioso di introspezione ,riavvolgendo all’indietro la...

The Pedagogy of Creativity represents a groundbreaking study linking the pedagogy of classroom creativity with psychoanalytical theories. Taking a classroom-based example of poststructuralist methodology as its starting point, Anna Herbert’s investigation explores the relationship between creativity...

Originally published in 1968, the findings of modern psychological research had contributed much that was directly relevant to the problems of all who taught at the time. Dr Fleming here presents both recent and past conclusions in a survey that would have been useful to all who were called upon to...

What can schools and social care workers do to help children affected by domestic violence? Large numbers of children are affected by domestic violence. The problem crosses every social class and culture. It causes distress and anxiety in children and adversely affects their learning and play,...

One may view the idea of the nation as a fundamental "assumption" which defines the manner in which modern man perceives, and experiences, social reality. Thus, just as persons in earlier historical periods tended to possess an absolute faith in the reality of God, so, we may suggest, do persons in contemporary cultures tend to possess an absolute faith in the reality of the nation.

La creatividad no es un lujo, sino una estrategia de supervivencia humana. Sentimos el impulso de explorar, inventar, conocer, cambiar, innovar. La creatividad es la facultad que nos permite sobrevivir y progresar en un entorno cambiante y acelerado. Es, además, un componente básico de la felicidad ...

Habituellement, les ouvrages qui traitent des élèves en difficulté scolaire mettent l'accent sur l'intervention qui a pour cible les facteurs de risque. Dans celui-ci, l'auteur privilégie les facteurs de protection, fondement de la résilience. Pour ce faire, il adopte le courant de la psychologie...

Le lecteur y trouvera une présentation accessible de connaissances complexes qui aborde le lien étroit entre la recherche et la pratique par l’entremise du transfert de connaissances. L’auteur y fait des réflexions tirées de son expérience en recherche et en intervention, et réalise des...

Qu’est-ce donc qu’apprendre? Existe-t-il différentes façons de définir ce qu’on entend par l’apprentissage? Quelles sont les racines des grandes théories de l’apprentissage? Qu’est-ce qu’on apprend, en fait? Et quel rôle le cerveau joue-t-il dans l’apprentissage? Quels sont les...

Rethinking Prison Reentry: Transforming Humiliation into Humility describes a prison-based education pedagogy designed to address a prevalent racial politics of shaming, self-segregation, and transgenerational learned helplessness. So many incarcerated black men face insurmountable psychosocial obstacles...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Children of Crisis, a profound examination of how listening to stories promotes learning and self-discovery. As a professor emeritus at Harvard University, a renowned child psychiatrist, and the author of more than forty books, including The Moral Intelligence...

The deportees into Nazi extermination camps charge the Shoà as the unutterable experience of the twentieth century that remains unsurpassed. They serve as witnesses of an event that, more than any other event, cannot be explained or rationalized. With this book, the author ponders upon this subject,...

Providing a deeper understanding of how two-year-old children learn, Understanding Schematic Learning at Two highlights how a schematic pedagogy can be used to recognise and support two-year-old children's thinking and understanding of the world around them. Over a 16-week period four children's individual...