Educational Psychology

This book provides a solid foundation for understanding violence within the African-American community from the perspective of African Americans. It challenges existing stereotypes of African Americans and offers concrete advice on approaches that are,...

This book presents unique results of complex studies from the all-Russian longitudinal study "Grow with Russia". In the framework of the cultural-historical concept, it focuses on the social situation of development, which is organized by...

In this book, we try to provide a practical, down-to-earth guide for those who are involved in language learning and teaching. We hope that this book will be a useful reading for those who would like to incorporate higher-order thinking skills...

This book offers critical explorations of how the psy-disciplines, Michel Foucault's collective term for psychiatry, psychology and psycho-analysis, play out in contemporary educational spaces. With a strong focus on Foucault's theories, it critically...

This book analyzes the productivity and effectiveness of a variety of time investments in education. It explores the methods used in education to optimize the time that students are exposed to learning content. Such methods include expanding official...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781792408328Author Brett WilkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638129530Author Nicholas LicausiFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Pen Culture SolutionsPublisher Pen Culture SolutionsWeight(grams)...

Digital Education is recognised as a key transformative innovation for K-12 school and university teaching and learning, as well as, for professional development and vocational training. As a result, blended and online courses are nowadays widely...

One outcome of recent progress in educational technology is strong interest in providing effective support for learning in complex and ill-structured domains. We know how to use technology to promote understanding in simpler domains (e.g., orientation...

Research in neuroscience and brain imaging show that exposure of learners to multi-semiotic problems enhance cognitive control of inter-hemispheric attentional processing in the lateral brain and increase higher-order thinking. Multi-semiotic...

This book reports on the use of behavioural support – an evidence-based approach developed in the USA to meet students’ special educational needs – in Australia and selected thriving Asian countries. It brings together key issues and insights into how...

This book provides a comprehensive study of the work of M. David Merrill, a major pioneer in the field of instructional design. This book centers on his research on his second generation instructional design (ID2) theory, Instructional Transaction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680923285Author Rose M SpielmanFormat HardbackPage Count 784Imprint 12th Media ServicesPublisher 12th Media ServicesWeight(grams) 2077gDimensions(mm)...

This book sets out a proposal for applying psychological and educational psychology concepts to improve work with children and young people. It also suggests how some of the criticism aimed at pedagogical-psychology practice can be answered. In several...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789393388650Author Sravya AnkemFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Blue Rose PublisherPublisher Blue Rose PublisherWeight(grams) 168g

This work explores and explicates learner motivation in online learning environments. More specifically, it uses a case-study approach to examine undergraduate students' motivation within two formal and separate online learning contexts. In doing so, it...

This book documents those first links that students make between content they learn in their classrooms and their prior experiences. Through six late-elementary school case studies these knowledge construction links are brought to life. The links of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656090632Author Meeta NihalaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 45g

Most teachers would agree that they teach reasoning skills in their classes. However, are they explicitly incorporating strategies that teach students to think critically? If so, how do they know these methods are effective? The purpose of this book is...

When students are self-motivated, they work harder at learning even if resources are inadequate. This book argues that students and teachers waste time and energy because the curriculum rests on flawed mental models. Change requires theories of...

Transcendental Learning discusses the work of five figures associated with transcendentalism concerning their views on education. Alcott, Emerson, Fuller, Peabody and Thoreau all taught at one time and held definite views about education. The book...

"Mary Kooy's Telling Stories in Book Clubs gives us a compelling, provocative, and insightful picture of teachers reading, talking, and learning together. By weaving together the responses of the novice teachers' book club, the experienced teachers' book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925320015Author Lesley ShamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Baha'i Publications AustraliaPublisher Baha'i Publications AustraliaWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869278463Author Ellen L WalkerFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Ellen L. Walker, Ph.D.Publisher Ellen L. Walker, Ph.D.Weight(grams) 440g

This book contains the first complete translation of the first half of the Pedology of the Adolescent by the Soviet thinker, educator, and teacher L.S. Vygotsky. It was the longest work published in his lifetime and was a correspondence course written by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801116473Author Edoardo Zeloni MagelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Mind BooksPublisher Mind BooksWeight(grams) 133g

Teacher burn out contributes to the epidemic of early career exit. At least half of all new K-12 teachers leave the profession by the time they reach their fifth year of teaching. Conversely, there are urban teachers who survive burn out and thrive as...

This book will be written primarily for graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and professionals in the fields of school psychology, special education, and other areas of education, as well as the health professions. We see the book as being a...

This edited volume offers cross-country and cross-cultural applications of Dialogical Self Theory within the field of education. It combines the work of internationally recognized authors to demonstrate how theoretical and practical innovations emerge at...

The persistently increasing scale and complexity of government, of quasi public organizations, and of private organizations pose many problems in the economics of collective choice. Moreover, education as a quasi-public good has drawn ever more heavily...

Most teachers would agree that they teach reasoning skills in their classes. However, are they explicitly incorporating strategies that teach students to think critically? If so, how do they know these methods are effective? The purpose of this book is...

Education, East and West, is today mostly Western in orientation. Asian perspectives remain relatively unrepresented in curricula, pedagogy and administrative structures. This volume has brought together authors researching in Asia who redress this...

This book examines current trends in higher education and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. It introduces readers to pedagogical strategies that instructors worldwide are using to overcome some of the challenges they face in higher education. To...

This volume presents a collection of writings on the relations among creativity, culture and development. The editors invited "like-minded" researchers of creativity from around the world to share their respective notions of creativity. Given...

Schools are increasingly being called upon to aid in the development of resilience in young people in order to be proactive and prevent the consequences of poor social-emotional health and well-being. In this collection of 13 essays, 19 scholars from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869026248Author Ralph A MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Ralph A. MorganPublisher Ralph A. MorganWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781778832253Author Dr Rimaletta RayFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Bookside PressPublisher Bookside PressWeight(grams) 830g

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...

This book approaches the prevention of fatal incidents in outdoor education and related fields through detailed study of past tragedies. Although safety in many fields is built on accumulated lessons from past incidents, tragedies on school or youth...

This book focuses on the effect of psychological, social and demographic variables on student achievement and summarizes the current research findings in the field. It addresses the need for inclusive and interpretive studies in the field in order to...