Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
Creative Selves / Creative Cultures
Critical Autoethnography, Performance, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This book addresses and demonstrates the importance of critical approaches to autoethnography, particularly the commitment that such approaches make to theorizing the personal and to creating work that embodies a social justice ethos. Arts-based and practice-led approaches to this work allow the explanatory...
International Perspectives on Home Education
Do We Still Need Schools?
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
This collection brings together the research of an eclectic mix of leading names in home-based education studies worldwide. It uses home education to explore contemporary education outside of school and place it into a global, political and critical context, and will be essential reading for home educators, academics and policymakers alike.
by Tom Gage
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Professor Tom Gage portrays eight modern educators and the development of their theories viewed from personal, cultural, and historical perspectives. He links their ideas to those of Fethullah Gülen, a highly influential educator of today who draws on an entirely different tradition.
Sartre and No Child Left Behind
An Existential Psychoanalytic Anthropology of Urban Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Sartre and No Child Left Behind: An Existential Psychoanalytic Anthropology of Urban Schooling
asks two fundamental questions: “Who do students become as a result of inhabiting impoverished urban schools for eight hours a day, five days a week, over the course of several years? What happens to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
High School to College Transition Research Studies offers two uniquely designed sections that provide a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research findings surrounding a diverse group of college students. This ground-breaking book by Terence Hicks and Chance W. Lewis provides the reader with...
by Marti Eicholz
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
From very early childhood, Mitsy longs for closeness with others–a free-flowing acceptance, approval, rapport, and respect that ideally should exist in the "perfect family."Somehow, Mitsy realizes she does not have a "perfect family." She lives a solitary, friendless, and lonely...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Initiative inédite, motivée par l’expression des attentes et besoins concrets des doctorants, cet ouvrage s’est fixé comme objectif de donner aux doctorants en sciences humaines et sociales de fin de 1ère année (et au-delà), un ensemble construit d’outils transversaux, théoriques, méthodologiques...
by Brian Hill
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
The Edinburgh Techniques are a set of general learning tools.
This book combines the 4 eBooks in the 'Conquer series' - Conquer Spelling, Conquer Times Tables, Conquer Reading Out Loud and Conquer Anxiety and Bed-wetting. It also shows how to use the core learning technique to learn...
by Gwendolyn J. Cooke PhD
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Too often, the children of the poor do not perceive highly accomplished men and women as realistic role models for themselves. By examining profiles of African American elected officials and other role models in the curriculum presented in Look Up! Images in the Classroom, students may be encouraged...
Approaches to Substance Abuse and Addiction in Education Communities
A Guide to Practices that Support Recovery in Adolescents and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book is designed to increase the awareness among mental health professionals and educators about the potential sources of support for students struggling with substance abuse, addiction and compulsive behaviors. The book includes a description of the scope of the problem of substance abuse in...
The Unruly PhD
Doubts, Detours, Departures, and Other Success Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
This collection features former graduate students who speak frankly about the challenges and decisions they faced along the way to their doctorates. Peabody leaves no doubt that there are as many right ways to get through a PhD, and as many right career tracks on the other side, as there are students willing to forge their own paths.
Teacher Education in Lifelong Learning
Developing Professionalism as a Democratic Endeavour
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
This book promotes the idea that professionalism among teachers should be marked by democratic relations, rather than by managerialism and performance management. It provides a thorough investigation of issues around the participation of trainee teachers in the Lifelong Learning Sector, by reflecting...
Better Than Ok
Helping Young People to Flourish at School and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
This is a book of up-to-date strategies for helping children—from their earliest years into adulthood—and is all about helping kids do more than just survive; these are strategies to help kids flourish. These solution-focused and easy-to-read essays are by 27 of the world's top experts in positive...
Counseling Gifted Students
A Guide for School Counselors
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
"Drs. Susannah Wood and Jean Peterson have combined forces to move the field of school counseling forward in its work on behalf of gifted students… This subtle regularizing into appropriate school counseling practice is actually quite radical as is makes it clear that the time has passed to consider...