Educational Psychology

This essential book will help English teachers to address the challenges and opportunities in creating a powerful, knowledge-rich, concept-led curriculum, which draws on lived experience and engages with cognitive science and other educational research...

A freshly updated edition featuring research-based teaching techniques that faculty in any discipline can easily implement Research into how we learn can help facilitate better student learning-if we know how to apply it. Small Teaching fills the gap in...

This book is the go-to resource for those parents and professionals seeking to support children through the trauma of war and conflict. Not only does it provide the evidence base for effectively integrating refugee children into their new schools, but it...

How can I improve my memory? Do my emotions affect my memories? How will my memory change as I get older?The Psychology of Memory provides a unique insight into a fundamental part of being human, debunking many common misconceptions about what memory is,...

This best-selling resource provides clear, straightforward introductions to the foundational theories of John Dewey, Maria Montessori, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Lev Vygotsky. Each chapter highlights a theorist's work and includes insight on how the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612436012Author Annie BrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 325g

This book explores and critiques topical debates in educational sciences, philosophy, social work and cognitive neuroscience. It examines constructions of children, parents and the welfare state in relation to neurosciences and its vocabulary of brain...

The Teacher and the Teenage Brain is essential reading for all teachers and students of education. This book offers a fascinating introduction to teenage brain development and shows how this knowledge has changed the way we understand young people. It...

This book is designed to be of interest to many different audiences due to its cross-sectoral and transdisciplinary content. It will appeal to those within architectural higher education as well as to spatial practitioners, students, civic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988898462Author Bernii GodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Loving on PurposePublisher Loving on PurposeWeight(grams) 390g

This book focuses on the 'learning' in Accelerated Learning. It provides over 200 ideas and activities for putting theory into practice. ACCELERATED LEARNING: A User's Guide answers the following questions: In what ways are today's learners different...

Positive psychology focuses on building strengths and developing creative and positive thinking in order to boost happiness, well-being and achievement. It helps people to be motivated, maintain positive mental health, and to flourish in all areas of...

Many things people commonly believe to be true about education are not supported by scientific evidence. Urban Myths about Learning and Education examines commonly held incorrect beliefs and then provides the truth of what research has shown. Each...

Part of the How to Help series of books exploring issues commonly faced by children and young people at home and in school, The Gifted Learner offers an accessible introduction to how high ability students can best be supported to achieve their full...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883536213Author Phillip ZimbardoFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint ISHKPublisher ISHK

If the difference between a student's success and failure were something specific you could teach, wouldn't you?Metacognition is exactly that-a tool that helps students unlock their brain's amazing power and take control of their learning. Educational...

The long-awaited follow-up to Making Thinking Visible, provides new thinking routines, original research, and unique global case studies Visible Thinking-a research-based approach developed at Harvard's Project Zero - prompts and promotes students'...

We know students have more to learn than ever before and there is a lot of pressure to perform well on tests, demonstrating superior learning. However, common study strategies such as cramming, highlighting text, and repeated reading have little impact...

'This book is a must-read for parents and educators who want to refocus children's attention to one of the greatest secrets to long-term happiness - discovering the extraordinary in the ordinary' - Jessica Joelle Alexander, co-author of The Danish Way of...

Today, more people want to know how to make a meaningful difference to what they care about. But for that, traditional approaches to learning often fall short. In this book, we offer a theoretical and practical way forward. We introduce the concept of...

How can you shift from a focus on content to the creation of active learning experiences? In this practical resource, author Jason Kennedy provides a blueprint to help you stop "teaching" and start designing learning, so you can improve students'...

Personality Psychology: The Basics provides a jargon-free and accessible overview of the discipline, focusing on why not all individuals think, feel, speak, or act the same way in the same situation.The book offers a brief history of the area, covering a...

The Magic of Metaphor also gives you 16 suggestions for effective story telling, and advice on organization, style, and story-telling skills. This is an excellent resource for teachers.About the AuthorWhat are we called to do in our lives and how can we...

Literary trauma studies is a rapidly developing field which examines how literature deals with the personal and cultural aspects of trauma and engages with such historical and current phenomena as the Holocaust and other genocides, 9/11, climate...

The main thesis of this book is that words have power. They have power to nourish - to add substantially to the way people feel about themselves. They also have power to hurt - to diminish another's feelings about self. The words we use to each other can...

The first teacher's guide to the proven counseling approach known as motivational interviewing (MI), this pragmatic book shows how to use everyday interactions with students as powerful opportunities for change. MI comprises skills and strategies that...

Based on a collaboration dating back nearly a decade, the authors-a behavioural analyst and a child psychiatrist-reveal their systematic approach for deciphering causes and patterns of difficult behaviours and how to match them with proven strategies for...

The major barrier in the way of competent counselling provision for people with learning disabilities is not the presence of a learning disability, but the lack of understand of the relevance of counselling by potential referrers... Sally Hodges has...

This important book considers what we know about test and exam anxiety, including how it is defined, its characteristics, how it can be identified, why and how it develops, and what can be done to support test-anxious students.Addressing the pressures of...

Weaving the Paths of Buddhism and Psychotherapy is an empathic guide to integrating Eastern and Western wisdom traditions that share the common goal of easing distress. Following the so-called 'mindfulness revolution' there has been a surge in interest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250212832Author Marc BrackettFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

Students with strong executive function skills hold the keys to school and social success--from attention and impulse control to time management and organization. Now K-12 teachers have a practical, highly readable guide to enhancing these critical...

Part of the How to Help series of books exploring issues commonly faced by children and young people at home and at school, Effective Study and Learning offers a complete introduction to these critical yet frequently overlooked topics. Many young people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646040445Author Annie BrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses Press

Unique in offering a multidisciplinary perspective on key issues of alternative epistemologies in education, this collection includes contributions from scholars in family therapy, epistemology, and mathematics, science, and language education. These...

From Trauma to Resiliency integrates research and practice of trauma-informed care, reviewing the neuroscience of trauma and highlighting relationship-based interventions for diverse populations that have faced multiple traumas. Chapters explore the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913622350Author Jared Cooney HorvathFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint John Catt Educational LtdPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 300g

This beautifully illustrated and sensitive fairy tale has been created for children experiencing feelings of anxiety. With engaging and gentle illustrations to help prompt conversation, it tells the story of a boy who is taught by an animal-guide how to...

Meditation for Psychotherapists provides students and practitioners of psychotherapy with specific meditation techniques.Chapters offer a comprehensive theoretical and practical approach as an adjunct to established professional development tools. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646959405Author John MaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint IdentikstechnologiesPublisher IdentikstechnologiesWeight(grams) 295g