Educational psychology

This book by-passes both psychology and sociology to present an original social theory centered on seeing mathematical learning by everyone as an intrinsic dimension of how mathematics develops as a field in support of human activity.

This book presents innovative instructional interventions designed to support inquiry project-based learning as an approach to equip students with 21st century skills.

This book focuses on developing methods for constructing learning paths in terms of "e;learning resources"e; (learning contents), "e;learning approaches"e; (learning method), and "e;learning quality"e; (learning performance) to support learning.

This book discusses the significance of flexible scripting to structure CSCL against the framework of "e;Script theory of guidance"e; and reports on findings from two empirical studies on the effects of flexible scripting on collaboration in CSCL scenarios.

This book reports on a research program designed to construct the basics of a new type of literacy that teaches pupils social problem-solving at individual and collective levels.

This book radically counters the optimism sparked by Competence Based Education and Training, an educational philosophy that has re-emerged in Schooling, Vocational and Higher Education in the last decade.

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This book examines the current political, social, and economic positions that push the responsibility for the emotional health of students onto schools.

While the focus of the UX research and design discipline and the Learning Sciences and instructional design disciplines is often similar and almost always tangential, there seems to exist a gap, i.

This book introduces a comprehensive RTP Model that reframes research to practice knowledge and inclusive education philosophy to promote the sustained use of research to promote and enhance meaningful education for all students.

This volume is the result of a 2016 research symposium sponsored by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) focused on the growing theoretical areas of integrating story and narrative into educational design.

This book provides an extensive overview of curricula and instructional strategies for teaching children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

This book discusses examples of discrete mathematics in school curricula, including in the areas of graph theory, recursion and discrete dynamical systems, combinatorics, logic, game theory, and the mathematics of fairness.

This edited volume examines inclusive education and disability in the global South.

Flipped learning-in which students view recorded lectures outside of the classroom and then utilize class time to develop a broad range of knowledge and skills-is a relatively new phenomenon.

This book reviews and critiques the growing literature on youth development under conditions of political violence and armed conflict.

This book builds on current and emerging research in distance learning, e-learning and blended learning.

This book includes more than twenty computer games and simulations for use in teacher training.

This book addresses the significant problems that can arise for pre-service teachers, teachers and school leaders who are unprepared for the complexities of 21st century teaching.

This handbook examines policy research on school counseling across a wide range of countries and offers guidelines for developing counseling research and practice standards worldwide.

The first volume in this ground-breaking series focuses on the origins and early development of numerical cognition in non-human primates, lower vertebrates, human infants, and preschool children.

Volume 1: Education and Training for the Oil and Gas Industry: Case Studies in Partnership and Collaboration highlights, for the first time, 8 powerful case studies in which universities, colleges and training providers are working with oil companies to produce capable, competent people.

Our principal concern in this book is to understand three important ideas: learning, technology and innovation, and to examine these ideas and the relationships between them in situ; that is, we examine a number of cases of learning technologies in action in two countries, England and Brazil.

Twin Mythconceptions: False Beliefs, Fables, and Facts about Twins sheds new light on over 70 commonly held ideas and beliefs about the origins and development of identical and fraternal twins.

Quality Activities in Center-Based Programs for Adults with Autism: Moving from Nonmeaningful to Meaningful describes what constitutes meaningful versus nonpurposeful activities for adults with autism and other severe disabilities in a classroom or center-based program.

Handbook of the Biology of Aging, Ninth Edition, provides a comprehensive synthesis and review of the latest and most important advances and themes in modern biogerontology.

Autism 360 uses a hybrid and transdisciplinary methodology to identify mechanisms on how autism is prevented, diagnosed, treated and managed within personal and social constructs around the world.

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 offers a comprehensive overview of current, innovative approaches to assessing generic and domain-specific learning outcomes in higher education at both national and international levels.

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

This book presents a collection of selected papers that represent the current variety of research on the teaching and learning of probability.

This  edited  volume is a state-of-the-art comparison of  primary  science  education  across  six  East-Asian  regions;  namely,  the  People's  Republic  of  China, Republic  of  Korea,  Republic  of  China, Hong  Kong  SAR,  Japan,  and  Singapore.

This book draws together international research to assess the quality of successful efforts to retain students.

This book is a synthesis of the complex interdependencies between user interface design of digital screen and learning process.

The book investigates interest groups and various learning circles, Reading Circles (RCs) learning opportunity in particular, as a mode of in-class and beyond class autonomous learning in the  context of English Language Teaching (ELT) at tertiary level in Oman, and in similar contexts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

Two decades after the war, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) still faces a weak national identity and ethnic and religious divisions that are further preventing the country from reaching sustainable peace and development.

This book brings together an international group of literacy studies scholars who have investigated mobile literacies in a variety of educational settings.

This book reports on 12 education innovation cases in Taiwan and focus particularly on an ecosystem to demonstrate innovation as a competitive advantage and requires an ecosystem to be sustainable in virtually all disciplines.

This book focuses on teaching and learning with mobile technologies, with a particular emphasis on school and teacher education contexts.

This book project poses a major challenge to Japanese science education researchers in order to disseminate research findings on and to work towards maintaining the strength and nature of Japanese science education.

This book is the first comprehensive and integrated guide to online education.

This book contributes to our understanding how teachers can improve classroom dialogue and thereby boost student learning.

This book demonstrates how blended learning improves access to and enhances the quality of higher education teaching and learning in Asian universities.

This book introduces state-of-the-art research on simulation and serious games for education.

This book consists of previously unpublished manuscripts by Vygotsky found in the first systematic study of Vygotsky's family archive.

This book brings together recent postgraduate research in the broad area of giftedness, talent development and gifted education conducted across New Zealand and Australia.

This book synthesizes research about the effects of food insecurity on children, families, and households, emphasizing multiple pathways and variations across developmental contexts.

Children spend more time in school than in any social institution outside the home.

Learning Analytics become the key for Personalised Learning and Teaching thanks to the storage, categorisation and smart retrieval of Big Data.

This book explores a broad range of innovations in education, such as flipped classrooms, the educational use of social media, mobile learning and educational resources.