Educational Psychology

Cultivating Kindness sheds light on just how children and adolescents are kind, especially in school. Grounded in psychological and educational research on kindness and supported with illustrations capturing the voices of public school students, this...

Self-regulation in education is a familiar and important topic for all educators: professors, administrators, teachers, researchers, journalists, and scholars. As educational standards require that students take control of what and how they learn,...

As the inner resource that drives us to pursue activities, to put forth effort, and to avoid failure, motivation is key to overall well-being. Self-efficacy and future goals are important to understanding and reinforcing the motivation to learn,...

This book articulates how crime prevention research and practice can be reimagined for an increasingly digital world. This ground-breaking work explores how criminology can apply longstanding, traditional crime prevention techniques to the digital realm...

Everyone agrees that what we do in schools should be based on what we know about how the brain learns. Until recently, however, we have had few clues to unlock the secrets of the brain. Now, research from the neurosciences has greatly improved our...

Teachers often find that their training has not provided them with sufficient knowledge and understanding about underlying social forces and processes in their classrooms. This new book addresses this gap by focusing on the social psychology of the...

Statistics for Applied Behavior Analysis Practitioners and Researchers provides practical and useful content for individuals who work directly with, or supervise those who work directly with, individuals with ASD. This book introduces core concepts and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946444851Author Kim BeardenFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc.Publisher Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc.Weight(grams)...

According to the Sentencing Project, between 1980 and 2017, the number of incarcerated women increased by more than 750%, rising from a total of 26,378 in 1980 to 225,060 in 2017 and the number continues to rise. Dealing with incarcerated women and...

Most contemporary North Americans, as well as many other Westerners, take for granted their conceptions of themselves as individuals with uniquely valuable and complex inner lives -- lives filled with beliefs, imaginings, understandings, and motives that...

The combination of sustained hard work and resiliency, grit is the difference between those who give up and those who don't. Grit in the Classroom: Building Perseverance for Excellence in Today's Students assists educators in creating a learning...

Educators must both respond to the impact of trauma, and prevent trauma at school.Trauma-informed initiatives tend to focus on the challenging behaviors of students and ascribe them to circumstances that students are facing outside of school. This...

Do you remember a time when you used the right words at the right moment, and they made all the difference? With the aim of helping you repeat that experience every day, this book provides hundreds of examples of what we call Great Teacher Language, a...

Engaging Minds: Evolving Learning and Teaching explores the diverse beliefs and practices that define the current landscape of formal education. The revised, updated, and expanded fourth edition of this groundbreaking introduction to current...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998543659Author Rubem AlvesFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint New London LibrariumPublisher New London LibrariumWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994386601Author Luke McKennaFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Unleashing Personal PotentialPublisher Unleashing Personal PotentialWeight(grams)...

Prepare for a captivating journey into the depths of human potential and excellence in this scholarly work. Within these pages, discover evolving complexity theory (ECT), a unified theory of talent development that integrates a rich body of research and...

This book offers specific, easy-to-implement mindfulness and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) tools for practitioners to use in schools at an individual, group, or classroom-wide level. With the increased focus on the emotional and behavioral...

If you need to know "what comes after the teambuilding activity?" this book is for you! Jim Cain, Michelle Cummings and Jennifer Stanchfield have collectively been active in adventure-based and active learning programs for almost a century. From their...

The field of education is rife with calls to action and for research to improve higher-level thinking and learning outcomes in primary, secondary, and tertiary education. With the No Child Left Behind Act and even more recently the Every Student Succeeds...

Dancing to Learn: Cognition, Emotion, and Movement explores the rationale for dance as a medium of learning to help engage educators and scientists to explore the underpinnings of dance, and dancers as well as members of the general public who are...

Engaging Minds: Cultures of Education and Practices of Teaching explores the diverse beliefs and practices that define the current landscape of formal education. The 3rd edition of this introduction to interdisciplinary studies of teaching and learning...

At present about one million pupils truant from their schools on a daily basis and this book examines why they do it. The numerous reasons for truanting discussed are: * disadvantageous home backgrounds * problems with settling in socially at school *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788409150991Author Grian A CutandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint Asociacion Avalon ProjectPublisher Asociacion Avalon ProjectWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788446022152Author LuriaFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Akal EdicionesPublisher Akal EdicionesWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 182mm * 124mm * 18mm

The Vygotsky Anthology brings together, for the first time, a selection of extracts from the best translations available of Vygotsky's writings, spanning the entire arc of his career.Vygotsky was arguably one of the greatest educational psychologists of...

"I'd die without my Blackberry" - one young person's comment sums up a generation of young people who are increasingly living their daily lives through their phones and the internet. Cyberbullying is rife, affecting one in five 10-19 year olds...

There has been an increased focus on the need to address the wellbeing and mental health challenges that affect humans across organizational settings, including the higher education sector. This comprehensive Handbook is organized into three sections:...

Moral Development offers a comprehensive overview of classic and current theories of moral development and applications of these theories in various counseling and educational settings. It examines changes across time and experience in how people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994448323Author Hopper DebbieFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Life Skills 4 KidsPublisher Life Skills 4 Kids

This volume introduces the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to the general field of education and traces her theories of mental life as an emotional situation, through to problems of self/other relations in our own time. The case is made for Klein's relevance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913705599Author Chris BrewerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Zephyr PressPublisher Zephyr PressWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 177mm * 19mm

While there are certainly numerous influences on individuals' learning and performance, cognitive strategies are the processes most directly related to making meaningful progress on a learning task or problem. Written by a leading expert on strategic...

School experience is the most significant part of learning to be a teacher. It can also be the most confusing, stressful and challenging. Initially, it can be very daunting to walk into someone else's classroom and try to prepare and teach effective...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788865403501Author OpenstaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Open Stax TextbooksPublisher Open Stax TextbooksWeight(grams) 1783gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Applied behavior analysts use applied research to create and implement effective evidence-based procedures in schools, homes, and the community, which have proved effective in addressing behaviors associated with autism and other developmental disorders...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967160147Author Victor LangbehnFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Personal Growth HackersPublisher Personal Growth HackersWeight(grams)...

This book provides practical information for teachers on developing their students' critical thinking skills. Ensuring that students leave school with good critical thinking skills has become a high priority over the last few years. This highly practical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954631212Author Jay JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Solution TreePublisher Solution TreeWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 178mm * 20mm

Radical Pedagogy articulates a new theory of identity based on recent research in psychoanalysis, social psychology and cognitive science. It explains how developing identity is a prerequisite for developing intelligence, personal well being, and the...