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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Emotional Dimensions of Educational Administration and Leadership explores foundational theories for emotional dimensions of educational administration and leadership as they influence our understanding, analysis and practice in the field. It covers a broad range of topics, such as ethics, authority,...
Inoperative Learning
A Radical Rewriting of Educational Potentialities
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Inoperative Learning embodies a weak philosophy of education. It does not offer a set of solutions or guidelines for improving educational outcomes, but rather renders taken-for-granted assumptions about the theory-practice coupling inoperative. By arguing that such logic reduces education to instrumental...
Intelligence, Instruction, and Assessment
Theory Into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Intelligence, Instruction, and Assessment shows how modern theories of intelligence can be directly applied by educators to the teaching of subject matter, regardless of the age of the students or the content being taught. It is intended primarily for teachers at all levels--elementary, secondary,...
Educational Psychology Casework
A Practice Guide Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Educational Psychology Casework is a practical, accessible guide to working with children, outlining the basic skills needed and practical strategies to promote positive change and obtain the best results for children.
The book covers how to develop skills such as establishing rapport, gaining...
Educational Administration and Leadership
Theoretical Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This volume provides diverse perspectives and paradigms in educational administration and leadership. Focusing on particular philosophical and theoretical schools of thought, it traces the contemporary history of debates in the field while also exploring emerging, non-traditional schools for insight...
Thinking in Education Research
Applying Philosophy and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Thinking in Education Research examines the resources available from philosophy and theory that can be practically applied to any educational research project. Nick Peim argues that the current well-established divide between theory and the empirical in research methods is unhelpful to students. Instead,...
Leading Beautifully
Educational Leadership as Connoisseurship
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Leading Beautifully provides a new dimension to understanding effective leadership. Drawing from lessons in the arts and the humanities, English and Ehrich explore how educational decision-making in schools can be informed by identity, personal competence, and an understanding of the field’s intellectual...
Global Pedagogies
Schooling for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Global Pedagogies: Schooling for the Future, which is the twelfth volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, presents scholarly research on major discourses in comparative education research with reference to globalisation, educational policy and...
by Megan Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
'This book is refreshing and distinctive. It takes the individual as the starting-point and builds outwards from there, to the vital but often neglected interpersonal dimension and the turbulent contexts of modern education. Vignettes help to make the theory concrete and activities bring the reader...
by Nathaniel L. Gage
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2009
The literature of the behavioural and social sciences is full of theory and research on learning and memory. Teaching is comparatively a stepchild, neglected by those who have built a formidable body of theories of learning and memory. However, teaching is where learning and memory theory should pay...
by Holmes Finch, Brian F. French, Jason C. Immekus
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The book will be designed primarily for graduate students (or advanced undergraduates) who are learning psychometrics, as well as professionals in the field who need a reference for use in their practice. We would assume that users have some basic knowledge of using SPSS to read data and conduct basic...
Understanding Educational Psychology
A Late Vygotskian, Spinozist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This book takes up the agenda of the late (but unknown) L. S. Vygotsky, who had turned to the philosopher Spinoza to develop a holistic approach to psychology, an approach that no longer dichotomized the body and mind, intellect and affect, or the individual and the social. In this approach, there...
The Clinical Practice of Educational Therapy
Learning and Functioning with Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Despite the wide array of services offered to students with learning disabilities, attention-deficit disorder, and a variety of comorbid conditions, large numbers of students are caught in the struggle of surviving school. Unfortunate school experiences may impact their sense of self and the degree...
Handbook of Item Response Theory Modeling
Applications to Typical Performance Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Item response theory (IRT) has moved beyond the confines of educational measurement into assessment domains such as personality, psychopathology, and patient-reported outcomes. Classic and emerging IRT methods and applications that are revolutionizing psychological measurement, particularly for health...