Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
by Li Jilin
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
This book discusses situational instruction – a topic that is particularly relevant to Chinese language teaching and learning – in the context of research in the field. Employing real-world classroom case studies, it focuses on contextualized literacy, reading and writing. It also includes the...
Guide to Effective Grant Writing
How to Write a Successful NIH Grant Application
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Guide to Effective Grant Writing: How to Write a Successful NIH Grant, 2nd edition is a fully updated follow-up to the popular original. It is written to help the 100,000+ post-graduate students and professionals who need to write effective proposals for grants. There is little or no formal teaching...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The exuberant explosions of old college days have traditionally been forgiven as somewhat enviable expressions of the high spirits of exultant youth. Are young intellectuals, now the dominant group in many colleges, less adolescent and more mature, or do their immaturities merely manifest themselves...
by Margaret Somerville, Monica Green
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Through focusing on children's sustainability learning this book examines how school education can address the current environmental problems. It explores children's responses in literacy and language, arts-based approaches, and indigenous studies as well as scientific pedagogies to provide a unique insight into how children learn.
The Feeling Child
Laying the foundations of confidence and resilience
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
What impact does children’s emotional development and well-being have on their capacity to learn? How do you provide learning experiences that meet the developmental needs of every child in your care?
The Feeling Child thoughtfully discusses the key principles of children’s emotional and...
Learning and Teaching Mathematics in The Global Village
Math Education in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book provides a fundamental reassessment of mathematics education in the digital era. It constitutes a new mindset of how information and knowledge are processed by introducing new interconnective and interactive pedagogical approaches. Math education is catching up on technology, as courses...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
First published in 1985, the Handbook for Achieving Gender Equity Through Education quickly established itself as the essential reference work concerning gender equity in education. This new, expanded edition provides a 20-year retrospective of the field, one that has the great advantage of documenting...
by Barbara Tizard, Peter Blatchford, Jessica Burke
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
First published in 1988, this work reports on a major British study of children’s progress and behaviour in 33 infant schools. The research looks at children from nursery through to junior school and asks why some children had higher attainments and made more progress than others. Using observations...
Disabling Characters
Representations of Disability in Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Disabling Characters provides detailed analyses of selected young adult (YA) novels and short stories. It looks at the relative agency of the disabled character, the behavior of the other characters, the environment in which the character must live, the assumptions that seem to be underlying certain...
Investigating the Language of Special Education
Listening to Many Voices
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2014
Utilising a wide range of theoretical traditions from philosophy, sociology and anthropology, this book aims to raise the reader's awareness of the power as well as the limitations of language in relation to special education.
Exploring Emotions
How you can help children to recognise and talk about their feelings
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
This practical book from Ros Bayley is designed to enable every practitioner to help children manage their emotions. This title looks at the whole range of emotions that children feel and enable any practitioner to help children recognise these emotions and talk about them. Brimming with ideas for...
Creating Schools That Heal
Real-Life Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Lesley Koplow’s well-examined truths uncover an image of intimacy between teacher and child sorely needed in our schools. Her ‘emotionally responsive’ teacher is the pivot for a classroom community that visibly supports and honors it’s members in the great variety of...
Learning to Teach in the Digital Age
New Materialities and Maker Paradigms in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Learning to Teach in the Digital Age tells the story of a group of K–12 teachers as they began to connect with digital making and learning pedagogies. Guiding questions at the heart of this qualitative case study asked how teaching practices engaged with and responded to the maker movement and digital...
by Elizabeth Warren, Jodie Miller
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
This book reports the impact a four-year longitudinal study (Representations, Oral Language and Engagement in Mathematics (RoleM)) had on teachers and students from 16 schools in disadvantaged contexts. It offers theories with regard to the interplay between teaching and learning mathematics as teachers...