Educational psychology

This book generates a comprehensive account of ways in which practice-based learning has been conceptualized in the Francophone context.

This Brief examines COMPASS - the Collaborative Model for Promoting Competence and Success - a consultation-based intervention specialized for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

This timely resource analyzes home visits as a primary intervention for at-risk families with infants and young children and details innovative programs for home service delivery.

In this volume cultural, social and cognitive influences on the research and teaching of mathematical modelling are explored from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives.

This book presents the current state of the art on Construction Grammar models and usage-based language learning research.

The present work is intended to assist academics, researchers and proponents of online learning and teaching.

This book focuses on the interface of work and personal life of international professionals.

This book explores teaching and learning in lower secondary classrooms in the three PISA domains science, mathematics and reading.

This handbook examines evidence-based treatment of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders for a broad clinical audience.

This book explores research on processes that influence family-school partnerships in support of student learning and education.

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This volume considers the future of science learning - what is being learned and how it is being learned - in formal and informal contexts for science education.

This book delves into two divergent, yet parallel themes; first is an examination of how educators can design the experiences of learning, with a focus on the learner and the end results of education; and second, how educators learn to design educational products, processes and experiences.

This book provides an international perspective of current work aimed at both clarifying the theoretical foundations for the use of multimodal representations as a part of effective science education pedagogy and the pragmatic application of research findings to actual classroom settings.

The need for a scientifically literate citizenry, one that is able to think critically and engage productively in the engineering design process, has never been greater.

This book presents innovations in teaching and learning science, novel approaches to science curriculum, cultural and contextual factors in promoting science education and improving the standard and achievement of students in East Asian countries.

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

This book explores a major media management topic on the basis of case study research conducted in European, US and Brazilian media companies.

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 book presents current research on boundary spanning elements.

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.

Contrary to popular conceptions that ethical failures in leadership are correlated with economic downturns and other stressful market conditions, this book argues that such transgressions are an intrinsic element of leadership, as it is defined under the current prevailing paradigm.

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 identifies institutional mechanisms that can be used to promote consumer confidence in direct online sales with businesses (B2C e-commerce).

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.