Educational psychology

This ground-breaking book is designed to raise awareness of human rights implications in psychology, and provide knowledge and tools enabling psychologists to put a human rights perspective into practice.

This 2003 book comprehensively covers all major topics of Vygotskian educational theory and its classroom applications.

Historically, the diagnosis of deafness in a child has been closely associated with profound disability, including such typical outcomes as unmet potential and a life of isolation.

Despite calls for a more preventive and developmental mode of functioning, school counseling has tended to be driven by a reactive and sometimes crisis orientation.

Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, Eighth Edition, tackles the biological and environmental influences on behavior as well as the reciprocal interface between changes in the brain and behavior during the course of the adult life span.

This timely collection explores how children display social competence in talking about their mental health and wellbeing.

This textbook gives readers a clear overview of a selection of 19 of the most influential thinkers on education, including established names (Vygotsky, Bruner, Dewey), more recent thinkers (Freire, hooks, Claxton) and other key names whose writing has helped shaped our views on teaching and learning.

Student engagement is fundamental to learning, yet it also constitutes a major and long-standing challenge to educators around the world.

Memory is inextricable from learning; there's little sense in teaching students something new if they can't recall it later.

Recent scholarship on children's literature displays a wide variety of interests in classic and contemporary children's books.

This book highlights the significance of an interdisciplinary approach to understanding children and childhoods in the Indian context.

Just as autism is a continuum of disorders, it is associated with a broad range of neurodevelopmental, social, and communication deficits.

Phillip Hughes: International Educator, Scholar, Teacher This Festschrift is published in honour of Professor Phillip Hughes, an exceptional Australian educationalist and influential member of the international education c- munity.

This handbook systematically reviews research evidence grounded in learning theory on how to design effective multimedia instruction.

`Certainly worth reading in order to be reminded of some positive reasons for entering the teaching profession: to value the process of education as much as the content, to view children holistically and to consider schools as places of learning for all' - British Journal of Special EducationBehaviour difficulties in our schools will not go away, but they can be significantly reduced.

This comprehensive text highlights new developments in sociological, educational and psychological aspects of socialisation, examining how human beings as 'subjects' - experiencing, thinking and acting individuals - confront the material, social and cultural 'objects' of their environment and sustain their position.

Originally published in 1962, the experimental study of aesthetics was a field particularly associated with the name of C.

This ready-to-use resource provides the practical information and hands-on skills interns and practicum students need to successfully complete their clinical experiences and join the counseling profession with confidence.

The studies contained in this volume present a sampling of policy and legislation relating to adult learning in various parts of the world.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of personal epistemology from a psychological and educational perspective.

Dialogue and Learning in Mathematics Education is concerned with communication in mathematics class-rooms.

This book focuses on university teachers' experience of teaching and learning.

This 2003 book comprehensively covers all major topics of Vygotskian educational theory and its classroom applications.

The Language of Mathematics: How the Teacher's Knowledge of Mathematics Affects Instruction introduces the reader to a collection of thoughtful works by authors that represent current thinking about mathematics teacher preparation.

This book presents a new theoretical model, constraint theory, for how to study creativity using scientific methods and clarifying concepts.

In light of the latest research from cognitive and developmental psychology, this key text explores reasoning, rationality, and democracy, considering the unique nature of each and their relationship to each other.

The discipline of school psychology has been shaped over the course of its existence by a series of professional and scientific controversies, and by how researchers and practitioners have responded to those controversies.

A growing body of research evidence suggests that physical activity can have a positive effect on educational achievement.

Meet the challenges of high stakes testing in the practice of school psychology School psychologists can be a positive influence on how students, teachers, parents, schools, and communities cope with the challenges and opportunities associated with high stakes testing.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current research, policy, and practice developments in promoting mental health and well-being.

This book explores the concept of resilience and its significance in responding to a rapid and ever-changing globalised world whilst critiquing its 'buzzword' status in contemporary times.

Self-regulation in education is a familiar and important topic for all educators: professors, administrators, teachers, researchers, journalists, and scholars.

Education becomes exciting and successful when both learners and teachers accomplish what they previously thought to be impossible.

This book provides a rationale for teaching inclusive teamwork and for understanding communication as a collective endeavour.

One of the five books in the Mental Health and Wellbeing Teacher Toolkit, this practical resource focuses on developing the skills necessary to build and maintain successful relationships.

Experts have yet to reach consensus about what a learning disability is, how to determine if a child has one, and what to do about it.

Using Games and Simulations for Teaching and Assessment: Key Issues comprises a multidisciplinary investigation into the issues that arise when using games and simulations for educational purposes.

In today's industrialized societies, the majority of parents work full time while caring for and raising their children and managing household upkeep, trying to keep a precarious balance of fulfilling multiple roles as parent, worker, friend, & child.

Education and Constructions of Childhood considers the social construction of childhood through the institutions of education and schooling.

Recent research in problem solving has shifted its focus to actual classroom implementation and what is really going on during problem solving when it is used regularly in classroom.

From Illiteracy to Literature presents innovative material based on research with 'non-reading' children and re-examines the complex relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, through the lens of the psychical significance of reading: the forgotten adventure of our coming to reading.

Diverse international perspectives on the ways in which young children's learning and care may be supported converge in this book.

Practitioners today are confronted by a bewildering array of therapies as 'cure alls.

This book briefly outlines psychological perspectives of the values, attitudes and behaviour of parents in influencing a child's personality.

An edited volume examining the importance of health and education in early childhood development and policy.

Research Methodologies of School Psychology is a comprehensive, actionable resource that offers graduate students and school psychologists the knowledge and skills to apply key scientific techniques in practice.

This book is designed to aid the faculty of medical and other health related schools in developing the pedagogical skills to transform their teaching in multiple settings including the classroom, the conference room, the ambulatory office, and the hospital from a passive learning experience to an active learning experience.

This book explores the history of the unschooling movement and the forces shaping the trajectory of the movement in current times.

Peer Groups and Children's Development considers the experiences of school-aged children with their peer groups and its implications for their social, personal and intellectual development Focuses on the peer group experiences of children attending school in Western societies, from five years of age through to adolescence Considers peer groups in classrooms, friendships made within and outside of school, and the groups that children participate in for extra-curricular activities Includes a final summary which brings together the significant implications for theory, policy and practice Unique in that no other volume reviews and integrates literature relating to peer groups in both classroom and out-of-class settings Addresses the research interests of psychologists and educationalists, as well as the practical concerns of teachers, parents, counsellors, and policy makers

This is the story of North Carolina parent choice advocates' push for the creation and expansion of choice policies.