Educational psychology

This book provides an overview of current research on the development of reading skills as well as practices to assist educational professionals with assessment, prevention, and intervention for students with reading difficulties.

This book draws together for the first time some of the most important international policy practice and research relating to education in out-of-home care.

This book discusses the topic of graduate employability from the premise that in this era of 'massification,' economic austerity, and political uncertainties, higher education (HE) no longer guarantees a clear 'work place advantage.

This book addresses cultural variability in children's social worlds, examining the acquisition, development, and use of culturally relevant social competencies valued in diverse cultural contexts.

This book investigates how arts-based research methods can positively influence people's resilience and well-being, particularly in constraining environments.

This book reports on a study on physics problem solving in real classrooms situations.

This book examines the learning and development process of students' scientific thinking skills.

This edited volume explores a range of educational effects on student learning that resulted from a long-term study using a creative visual arts curriculum designed for mobile media (smartphones and tablets) and used in art classrooms.

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This book asks how we might conceptualise, design for and evaluate the impact of feedback in higher education.

This book examines the push and pull of factors contributing to and constraining conversion of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education programs into STEAM (science, technology, engineering, math and arts) education programs.

This book was inspired by the inaugural National Roundtable on Environmental and Sustainability Education in Canadian Faculties of Education (Roundtable 2016), which took place June 14-16, 2016, at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.

This book shows how to plan, refine, and implement peer-supported mindfulness-based interventions to prevent mental disorders in children and youths.

This book reviews the current state of theoretical accounts of the what and how of science learning in schools.

Drawing on the author's lifelong practice in the non-competitive and defensive Japanese art of Aikido, this book examines education as self-cultivation, from a Japanese philosophy (e.

This book offers a nuanced understanding of how two different theories of leadership can be applied to achieve better results within schools.

This edited book examines the crucial role still played by African languages in pedagogy and literatures in the 21st century, generating insights into how they effectively serve cultural needs across the African continent and beyond.

This book explores the role of students' involvement in teacher professional development.

This handbook provides a review of relevant topics concerning the interface between culture and mental health, with a particular focus on child-rearing practices and transcultural issues in the perinatal period, infancy, and early childhood.

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

This book takes readers on a tour of a day in the life of a public elementary school in an effort to give parents and other stakeholders a sense of the realities of the classroom.

This book is the first comprehensive investigation of interlanguage pragmatic issues in a primary school context that is based on both primary school teachers' statements on their own teaching realities, views and preferences, and a thorough investigation of materials used by teachers and recommended by teacher educators in the state the primary schools are located in.

This book examines the eight-year development of the Reading Orienteering Club after-school program, showing how to develop, test, change, and adapt an after-school program to fit the needs of the children who attend.

This volume offers insights on language learning outside the classroom, or in the wild, where L2 users themselves are the driving force for language learning.

This handbook offers a comprehensive review of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for working in integrated pediatric behavioral health care settings.

This book explores the role that librarians play within schools as literacy leaders.

Visuospatial processing is key to learn and perform professionally in the domains of health and natural sciences.

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.

This book examines the paradox of creativity in art education and proposes a possible resolution.

This book focuses on experimental research in two disciplines that have a lot of common ground in terms of theory, experimental designs used, and methods for the analysis of experimental research data: education and psychology.

This book builds on the Teachers Empowered to Advance Change in Mathematics (TEACH Math) project, which was an initiative that sought to develop a new generation of preK-8 mathematics teachers to connect mathematics, children's mathematical thinking, and community and family knowledge in mathematics instruction - or what we have come to call children's multiple mathematical knowledge bases in mathematics instruction, with an explicit focus on equity.

This handbook offers a comprehensive review of intellectual disabilities (ID).

This book looks at a number of topics in economic education, presenting multiple perspectives from those in the field to anyone interested in teaching economics.

This book provides a detailed examination of argumentative interactions in families with young children during mealtimes.

This handbook, which serves as a follow-up text to The Palgrave Handbook of Experiential Learning In International Business, reviews theoretical and empirical approaches of experiential learning pedagogy, and its role in increasing the effectiveness in teaching and learning of international business, and also, in the incorporation of international business-related concepts and competences in business and non-business programs.

This edited volume will help educators better analyze methodological and practical tools designed to aid classroom instruction.

This book examines bullying and victimization at different points across the lifespan, from childhood through old age.

This book presents the innovative pedagogy of Writing Fantasy: a method for exploring and shifting one's identity as a writer.

This book describes and discusses a practice-oriented approach to understanding and researching interprofessional simulation-based education and simulation.

This book will offer ideas on how robots can be used as teachers' assistants to scaffold learning outcomes, where the robot is a learning agent in self-directed learning who can contribute to the development of key competences for today's world through targeted learning - such as engineering thinking, math, physics, computational thinking, etc.

This book offers a concise and comprehensive exploration of the theory of transformative learning by European researchers.

This book explores the importance of compassion and empathy within educational contexts.

This book presents commentaries by a leading international group of peace education scholars and practitioners concerning Reardon's peace education theory and intellectual legacy.

In this book various scholars explore the material in science and science education and its role in scientific practice, such as those practices that are key to the curriculum focuses of science education programs in a number of countries.

This book examines four main areas of music in early childhood: the traditions of music for young children, their capacities for music, the way they make music with others, and constructed and mediated musical childhoods.

This book analyses how narrative fictions can be used by faculty and staff in the teaching of professionals in higher education.

The book reports a comparative research project about algebra teaching and learning in four countries.

This handbook examines state-of-the-art research and clinical findings on attenuated psychosis syndrome (APS) across the globe.

This handbook offers a comprehensive review of the research on emotional development.

This book describes how those individuals who are often most marginalised in postcolonial societies draw on age-old, non-western knowledge systems to adapt to the hardships characteristic of unequal societies in transformation.