Educational psychology

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 examines evidence-based practices that facilitate effective teaching to ensure optimum educational achievement for school-age students.

This book provides a global overview of developments and discussion around the evaluation of quality of early childhood education environments, and the professional development of early childhood teachers, during the last decade.

The book explores various facets of transdisciplinarity in mathematics education and its importance for research and practice.

This book reports the results of a research project that investigated assessment methods aimed at supporting and improving inquiry-based approaches in European science, technology and mathematics (STM) education.

The computer graphics (CG) industry is an attractive field for undergraduate students, but employers often find that graduates of CG art programmes are not proficient.

This book challenges the validity of ADHD, learning disabilities, and dyslexia as meaningful special education "e;categories"e; and critically examines the misplaced medical model from which they are derived.

This volume documents on-going research and theorising in the sub-field of mathematics education devoted to the teaching and learning of mathematical modelling and applications.

This volume discusses 14 different types of disasters and their implications on the social, emotional and academic development of young children, from birth through age eight.

This edited volume offers cross-country and cross-cultural applications of Dialogical Self Theory within the field of education.

This book considers the pedagogy of the theatre laboratory, focusing on seminal theatre group Odin Teatret.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the universal issue of toilet training in children and explores issues that need to be considered by clinicians and other professionals.

This book shows how the practice of script writing can be used both as a pedagogical approach and as a research tool in mathematics education.

This book explores art practice and learning as processes that break new ground, through which new perceptions of self and world emerge.

Many courses and degrees require that students write a short thesis.

This book provides state-of-the-art knowledge on how to establish, organize, staff, and develop online education/e-learning programs.

This book provides classroom practice and research studies that verify Reacting to the Past (RTTP)-a student-centered, active learning pedagogy that provides college students and faculty unique teaching and learning opportunities-as a high impact practice for student learning and engagement.

Drawing from an international authorship and having global appeal, this book scrutinizes, suggests and aggravates the relationships, boundaries and connections between arts, research and education in various contexts.

In industrialized societies, individuals are facing major challenges that mobilize many of their psychological and social resources.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2017, held in Wuhan,China, in June/July 2017.

This groundbreaking volume introduces the theoretical base and clinical methods of Neurocognitive Learning Therapy, an integrative framework for client-centered intervention.

This book presents a collection of critical thinking that concern cultural, social and political issues for science education in the Nordic countries.

This book builds on conversations between the author educators and other experts in the field, including authors, illustrators and teachers, to explore the benefits of discussions around quality literature within a classroom context that exercises the imagination and generates new ideas and discoveries.

This book engages with important debates about multicultural British identities at a time when schools are expected to promote Fundamental British Values.

This book articulates how crime prevention research and practice can be reimagined for an increasingly digital world.

This book provides a long overdue conceptual framework for integrating evidence-based principles of school psychology leadership across NASP (National Association of School Psychologists) domains of practice.

This book presents a collection of vivid, theoretically informed descriptions of flashpoints--educational moments when the implicit sociocultural knowledge carried in the body becomes a salient feature of experience.

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In this well-illustrated book the authors, Sinan Kanbir, Ken Clements, and Nerida Ellerton, tackle a persistent, and universal, problem in school mathematics-why do so many middle-school and secondary-school students find it difficult to learn algebra well?

The second volume of this SpringerBrief presents a series of papers compiled from a conference addressing how after-school programs can promote positive youth development (PYD) hosted by Youth-Nex, the University of Virginia Center to Promote Effective Youth Development.

The first volume of this SpringerBrief presents a series of papers compiled from a conference about how after-school programs may be implemented to promote positive youth development (PYD) hosted by Youth-Nex, the University of Virginia Center to Promote Effective Youth Development.

This international survey defines mental health as a basic human right, and tracks the emergence of mental health prevention and promotion as a global priority.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of empirical studies based on various approaches devoted to examining the interpersonal argumentative processes involved in different contexts.

This volume is important because despite various external representations, such as analogies, metaphors, and visualizations being commonly used by physics teachers, educators and researchers, the notion of using the pedagogical functions of multiple representations to support teaching and learning is still a gap in physics education.

This book covers Rudolf Steiner's biography, presented from an educational point of view and also unfolds the different aspects of Steiner's educational thought in Waldorf Education.

This book describes the Data Team Procedure: a method for data-based decision making that can help schools to improve their quality.

This edited volume brings forth intriguing, novel and innovative research in the field of science education.

This book shows how principles of self-regulated learning are being implemented in secondary classrooms.

This book examines disproportionality in education, focusing on issues of social justice for diverse and marginalized students.

This data-rich volume reviews short- and long-term consequences of residential or institutional care for children across the globe as well as approaches to reducing maltreatment.

This brief will explore how open access repositories are being developed and maintained, in order to provide, disseminate and promote the development of digital educational resources.

This book describes recent approaches in advancing STEM education with the use of robotics, innovative methods in integrating robotics in school subjects, engaging and stimulating students with robotics in classroom-based and out-of-school activities, and new ways of using robotics as an educational tool to provide diverse learning experiences.

This interactive book presents comprehensive information on the fundamentals of landslide types and dynamics, while also providing a set of PPT, PDF, and text tools for education and capacity development.

This book brings together 10 experiments which introduce historical perspectives into mathematics classrooms for 11 to 18-year-olds.

This book listens to the voices of post-school teachers, managers, theorists, trainees, teacher educators and students talking about the battle against being educated.

In this book, Raymond Duval shows how his theory of registers of semiotic representation can be used as a tool to analyze the cognitive processes through which students develop mathematical thinking.

This book offers a range of approaches and specific examples of how a sample of internationally leading research-intensive universities, from a variety of regions around the world, work to improve teaching and learning.

This book discusses how we can inspire today's youth to engage in challenging and productive discussions around the past, present and future role of animals in science education.

This volume focuses on selected innovative programs designed to augment the science, engineering, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce through increasing and enhancing the participation of under-represented groups.

This book is based on the Life Design paradigm and discusses the efforts made to overcome the matching paradigm between individuals and their work contexts, in order to guarantee the adoption of an active role for future career planning.