Educational psychology

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.

Addressing emotional workplace abuse, this Palgrave Pivot takes a multidisciplinary approach which combines feminist research on violence with organisation and management studies, in order to offer a new approach on workplace violations.

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.

Focusing on the status of highly educated women in the workplace, this book examines how a particular demographic and workforce group can help to close the gender gap worldwide.

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 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.

This book presents a study of cooperatives as a two-layer entrepreneurial model, and analyzes cooperative enterprises.

 In this ground-breaking book, Dr.

This book provides a wide spectrum of research on young children's humor and illuminates the depth and complexity of humor development in children from birth through age 8 and beyond.

This volume provides a contemporary glance at the drastically expanding field of delivering large-scale education to unprecedented numbers of learners.

This book explores family-school partnerships and how they can be most effectively leveraged to ensure academic success for students from socioculturally diverse backgrounds.

The capabilities and possibilities of emerging game-based learning technologies bring about a new perspective of learning and instruction.

This book provides a research-based overview of the use of psychotropic medications in combination with psychosocial interventions to improve learning, social interactions, and behavioral functioning of children within the school setting.

Seeing Autism is a comprehensive but easy-to-understand guidebook for caretakers, parents, educators, counselors, therapists, and researchers on various aspects of rearing and supporting children with autism spectrum disorder.

This handbook reflects on quality-of-life in societies on the continent of Africa.

This book synthesizes theoretical perspectives, empirical evidence and practical strategies for improving teacher education in chemistry.

This collection presents research-based interventions using existing knowledge to produce new pedagogies to teach evolution to learners more successfully, whether in schools or elsewhere.

One of the most significant developments in contemporary education is the view that knowing and understanding are anchored in cultural practices within communities.

This brief will examine and explore some tools and techniques that can be used to develop interfaces for learning environments.

This book offers essential insights into the challenges and complexities surrounding the medium of instruction (MOI), its impact on all languages and stakeholders in multilingual contexts, educational processes, developments and outcomes.

Working with Transgender Young People and their Families advocates a critical developmental approach aimed at countering the cisgenderism that can be perceived in previous developmental literature on gender.

This volume looks at positive psychology from a culturally-responsive, empirically-driven perspective to avoid a descent into pseudoscience.

This book presents recent machine learning paradigms and advances in learning analytics, an emerging research discipline concerned with the collection, advanced processing, and extraction of useful information from both educators' and learners' data with the goal of improving education and learning systems.

This book is the first in the field to explore the use of music in negotiation, conflict resolution and leadership development.

This book tackles the phenomenon of limited learning on campuses by approaching it from the point of view of the author, an educator who writes about the experience of being, simultaneously, a college student and a college professor.

This book provides an interdisciplinary framework for school intervention into child and adolescent maltreatment, highlighting the unique potential for schools to identify and mitigate the long-term impacts of childhood trauma on children's educational well-being.

This book examines a wide range of innovations in language learning and teaching in Japan.

This book provides a thorough application of theoretical ideas from Deleuze and Guattari to a series of examples drawn from contemporary film and new media arts.

Hypnosystemische Therapie, Beratung, Supervision, Coaching - interessante einführende Artikel und Erfahrungsberichte von Experten zum Thema Konzepte und Methoden aus dem Bereich hypnotherapeutischer und systemischer Methoden.

This handbook examines the effects and influences on child and youth development of prejudice, discrimination, and inequity as well as other critical contexts, including implicit bias, explicit racism, post immigration processes, social policies, parenting and media influences.

If you take a chain, pile it up and then push it, what direction will it go?

This volume explores the value of using queer pedagogy in an interdisciplinary middle school classroom to promote a better understanding of social justice and the social construction of knowledge among students.

This book examines the interplay between IT solutions and specific management methods in organizations.

The book provides an overview of state-of-the-art research from Brazil and Germany in the field of inclusive mathematics education.

This book identifies and expands upon the link between ontology and education, exposing a lack of ontological inquiry as the vital missing element in the study and practice of modern education today.

This book discusses the current state of the art in research on the education and learning of adults, and how such research has been transformed through contemporary policy and research practices.

This book is a psychoanalytic observation of five children's existential encounters in their ordinary life at the nursery.

This volume uniquely links educational theories and the practice of GIScience in higher education contexts to guide classroom practice, present effective practical implementations from peers, and provide resources and strategies for effective teaching methods.

This book shares insights drawn from the diverse voices of public school teachers, community outreach education workers, professors, writers, poets, artists, and musicians on suffering in school and the classroom.

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

This book demonstrates how the pedagogical decision making of university academics can be shaped by engagement with an educational philosophy known as "e;relationship-centred education"e;.