Educational psychology

This book addresses new avenues in child abuse prevention research that will expand our capacity to protect children.

This book describes the journey of developing and implementing a global knowledge sharing strategy at the multinational project development and construction company Skanska.

This timely Brief offers up-to-date findings about bullying--from trends and outcomes to assessment and identification--and workable approaches to combat this social epidemic on multiple fronts.

This comprehensive edited volume synthesizes the current state of research and practice in psychological, medical, and motor disorders as they affect individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID).

This edited volume provides insight into how digital badgesmay enhance formal, non-formal and informal education by focusing on technicaldesign issues including organizational requirements, learning and instructionaldesign, as well as deployment.

This book provides a collection of the latest advances in engineering education in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and sheds insights for future development.

This practical guide provides a robust positive-parenting framework for professionals coaching parents of infants, toddlers, and primary school children.

This Brief integrates the literature and research on other-oriented hope.

This book illuminates what must always be at the heart of powerful schooling and authentic learning.

This Brief reviews the past, present, and future use of school corporal punishment in the United States, a practice that remains legal in 19 states as it is constitutionally permitted according to the U.

This volume focuses on our understanding of the reading comprehension of adolescents in a high stakes academic environment.

This book is an annual publication entering its 40th year.

This forward-looking monograph distills the current knowledge base on lethal school shootings for school professionals invested in improving school safety.

This volume focuses on how family-school partnerships are conceptualized, defined, and operationalized as well as the research that is needed to advance these foundational issues.

This ambitious multidisciplinary volume assembles diverse critical-theory approaches to the current and future states of networked learning.

The purpose of this research is to identify the categories of South Korean elementary teachers' knowledge for teaching mathematics.

Mass collaboration on Internet platforms like Wikipedia and Scratch, along with wider movements like the maker space and citizen science, are poised to have profound impacts on learning and education.

This brief synthesizes current findings on the many aspects of chronic student boredom, its relationship with negative academic, emotional, and health outcomes, and what professionals can do to best address it.

A new take on therapeutic mindfulness with specific applications to troubled and delinquent youth is the focus of this innovative text.

This book reports on the proceedings at the STELLAR Alpine Rendez-Vous 2013, presenting strategies in handling challenges that arise when using technology-enhanced learning (TEL).

This book explores how educators can transform improvements from the dynamic process of teaching into far-reaching, sustainable reforms that can secure a more prosperous future for students and the world they inhabit.

This important text synthesizes the state of knowledge related to thinking and technology and provides strategies for helping young people cultivate thinking skills required to navigate the new digital landscape.

This resource offers instructors a full palette of strategies for teaching social justice concepts across subject areas from kindergarten through college.

This book presents an in-depth overview of the uses of digital games in education, from K-12 up through post-secondary.

The spread of English as an international language along with the desire to maintain local languages lead us to consider multilingualism as the norm rather than the exception.

The most distinctive feature of the Second Edition is its theoretical orientation coupled with a focus on understanding emerging and young adulthood from multiple perspectives.

This book is devoted to the Metacognition arena.

This book examines current trends in higher education and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

This book introduces new concepts and mechanisms regarding the usage of both social media interactions and artifacts for peer education in digital educational games.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2014, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in September 2014.

This book describes the pedagogical foundations of the Roskilde Model of education and educational design.

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This book is about understanding the nature and application of reflection in higher education.

This book aims to provide insight into the complexities confronting higher education today and to highlight tangible opportunities that exist to address such issues.

This book examines the words and discourse as well as their meaning and impact on the everyday culture of a multidisciplinary team at a school for students with mental disabilities.

This work compiles experiences and lessons learned in meeting the unique needs of women and children regarding crime prevention and criminal justice, in particular the treatment and social reintegration of offenders, and serves a as a cross-disciplinary work for academic and policy-making analyses and follow-up in developing and developed countries.

This evidence-packed guide explores the growing importance of new technologies and situated learning in the vanguard of medical and health sciences education, backed by real-world clinical applications.

The ultimate aim of this book is to identify the conceptual tools and the instructional modalities which enable students and teachers to cross the boundary between school mathematics and real world problem solving.

This book combines an overview of validity theory, trends in validation practices and a review of standards and guidelines in several international jurisdictions with research synthesis of the validity evidence in different research areas.

This book examines the diverse use of visual representations by teachers in the science classroom.

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This volume offers insights in current theoretical discussions, observations, and reflections from internationally and regionally celebrated scholars on the theory and practice of teaching English informed by a new school of thought, English as an International Language (EIL).

Technology for Learners with Autism Spectrum Disorders provides readers with an in-depth look at the characteristics of learners with ASD and explains how different forms of technology can be used to create learning opportunities for autistic students.

This book focuses on how to effectively integrate the teaching and learning of visual and media literacies in K-12 and higher education.

This volume brings together research on how gameplay data in serious games may be turned into valuable analytics or actionable intelligence for performance measurement, assessment, and improvement.

The volume consists of twenty-five chapters selected from among peer-reviewed papers presented at the CELDA (Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age) 2013 Conference held in Fort Worth, Texas, USA, in October 2013 and also from world class scholars in e-learning systems, environments and approaches.

This book addresses the issues confronting educators in the integration of digital technologies into their teaching and their students' learning.

The diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has evolved greatly since Asperger's day.

The book explores advances in soft-skill training through the adaptation of traditional psycho-pedagogical methodology to digital and online settings.