Educational psychology

This handbook of technology education offers a state-of-the-art survey of developments in technology education worldwide.

Each chapter in this book makes a unique contribution to the body of the literature and enhances the understanding of spatial ability and its influence on learning in the STEM disciplines.

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Our image-rich, media-dominated culture prompts critical thinking about how we educate young children.

This book sets out a proposal for applying psychological and educational psychology concepts to improve work with children and young people.

This volume examines the theoretical and practical issues related to mentoring/peer mentoring as a support and development strategy for both pre-service and in-service language teachers, and thereby offers a practical and empirical introduction to the field.

This insightful volume integrates criminological theories, prevention science, and empirical findings to create an up-to-date survey of crime prevention research and strategies.

This volume presents current research on the connections between the home and family environment on children's mathematics development.

This book presents an emerging rehabilitation program for improving the reading abilities of individuals with low vision who undergo therapy for visual impairment.

This book brings together psychological and psychotherapeutic contributions in clinical practice with at-risk children and their families.

This innovative book discusses current findings on regulatory disorders in infants and offers practical guidelines for diagnosis and intervention.

This book is about the role and potential of using digital technology in designing teaching and learning tasks in the mathematics classroom.

This book addresses new research directions focusing on the emotional and aesthetic nature of teaching and learning science informing more general insights about wellbeing.

This book presents research in Geoscience Education focusing on indoor and outdoor environments in which teaching geoscience gains particular relevance, significance and contextualization.

This book focuses on well-being at school in association with positive peer relationships and bullying.

This volume represents current and futuristic thinking of seminal rural education researchers, with the goal of providing perspectives and directions to inform the work of rural education research, practice, and policy.

This book studies the major characteristics of the social pedagogical approach to early childhood education and care.

The purpose of this Springer Brief is to provide a comprehensive review of both the STEBI methods and findings through the use of a clearly defined analytic framework.

This book presents the most recent theory, research, and practice on service learning as it relates to early childhood education.

This book is a guide to designing curricular games to suit the needs of students.

This book provides a descriptive, progressive narrative on the flipped classroom including its history, connection to theory, structure, and strategies for implementation.

This book presents proceedings from the joint conference, Evidence and Rationales for Comprehensive Models of Autism Spectrum Disorder Treatment: Divergence and Convergence, sponsored by the Council on Autism Services and the Autism Partnership.

As English gains prominence as the language of higher education across the world, many institutions and lecturers are becoming increasingly concerned with the implications of this trend for the quality of university teaching and learning.

This book explores the impact of the socio-historical, political, and economic environment in South Africa, both during and after Apartheid.

This comprehensive reference uses an ecological perspective to sort out the complex mix of biological, psychological, social, and other factors influencing adolescent health as well as shaping professional responses to the needs of adolescents.

This book offers a new framework for the analysis of teaching and learning in the creative arts.

The book provides a systemic view of the state-of-the- art of Digital Game Based Learning (DGBL) across the lifespan, from age-specific game design requirements to technological devices that could overcome child and older adult difficulties in the use of DGBL technologies.

This book traces the development of coping from birth to emerging adulthood by building a conceptual and empirical bridge between coping and the development of regulation and resilience.

This book takes up the agenda of the late (but unknown) L.

This book addresses the lived challenges to teacher leadership.

This book presents research on the intersection of self-study research, digital technologies, and the development of future-oriented practices in teacher education.

The book introduces techniques to improve the effectiveness of serious games in relation to cognition and motivation.

This book portrays the various ways in which mentoring occurs in higher education.

This book introduces current theories and research on disability, and builds on the premise that disability has to be understood from the dialectical dynamics of biology, psychology, and culture over time.

This volume provides readers with a broad view on the variety of issues related to the educational research and practices in the field of Creativity in Mathematics and Mathematical Giftedness.

This book is an essential text for researchers and academics seeking the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of all aspects of e-learning and ICT in education.

This book considers some of the outstanding questions regarding language and communication in the teaching and learning of mathematics - an established theme in mathematics education research, which is growing in prominence.

Research within a socio-political paradigm or "e;turn"e; has been gradually recognized and institutionalized as an important part of mathematics education.

Updated and revised with more examples and expanded discussions, this second edition continues the aim of providing teachers with a solid understanding of the use and function of grammatical structures in American English.

This book guides the adoption, design, development and expectation of future digital teaching and learning projects/programs in K12 schools.

The second edition of this encyclopedia continues to break new ground as an important resource for the study of adolescence.

From ostracism on the playground to romantic rejection, bullying at work, and social disregard for the aged, individuals are at constant risk of experiencing instances of social exclusion, including ostracism, rejection, dehumanization, and discrimination.

This book analyses accountability and quality policies relating to learning standards and examines their implications for assessment in higher education.

This brief examines and explores the reuse of learning objects to enhance students' learning experiences.

This book explores terminology, frameworks, and research being conducted worldwide on virtual manipulatives.

This book focuses on children and the impact of neurotoxins on the developing brain to guide the practice of psychologists working with children in clinical and school settings.

Science Education: A Global Perspective is 'global' both in content and authorship.

This book provides a fundamental reassessment of mathematics education in the digital era.

This book explores the social conditions that promote pediatric resilience.

This book discusses how to improve high school students'understanding of research methodology based on alternative interpretations of data, role of controversies, creativity andthe scientific method, in the context of the oil drop experiment.