Educational psychology

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

The fourth edition of this textbook offers a scientific and practical context within which to understand and conduct clinical assessments of children's and adolescent's personality and behavior.

This book draws together the perceptions and experiences from a range of international professionals with specific reference to food education.

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

This edited volume includes chapters on disability studies organized around three themes: Theory, Philosophy and Critique.

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 book focuses on international research in statistics education, providing a solid understanding of the challenges in learning statistics.

This book provides an updated and fresh introduction to recent theoretical developments in youth studies.

Revealing Creativity: Exploration in Transnational Education Cultures explores the recovery and fostering of creativity under educational constraint.

This book offers a strengths-based, family-focused approach to improving the educational performance and  school experience of struggling Black and Latino students.

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 is a rhizomatic curriculum autobiography that charts the author's efforts to develop and promote Australian outdoor environmental education practices that are inclusive of, and responsive to, the places in which they are performed.

This book addresses the gap between formal music education curricula and the knowledge and skills necessary to enter the professional music industry.

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 volume explores the life stories of women who were former members of Mormon fundamentalist polygamous societies, from their own perspectives, to seek insight into their readiness for higher education settings.

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

This book explores the concept of resilience and its significance in responding to a rapid and ever-changing globalised world whilst critiquing its 'buzzword' status in contemporary times.

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 how citizen teachers can expand our capacities to generate more equitable and just spaces with families by working as community organizers.

This book explores and progresses the concept of negotiation as a means of describing and explaining individuals' learning in work.

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 aims to provide insight into how digital technologies may bridge and enhance formal and informal workplace learning.

This book reflects on the continuing development of teacher noticing through an exploration of the latest research.

This book is written for teacher educators who are looking for strategies to teach a foreign or second language in a more meaningful way whilst applying active methodologies to develop critical thinking skills.

This book explores the idea that mathematics educators and teachers are also problem solvers and learners, and as such they constantly experience mathematical and pedagogical disturbances.

The Educational Media and Technology Yearbook has become a standard reference in many libraries and professional collections.

The book synergizes research on number across two disciplines-mathematics education and psychology.

This volume emphasizes the role of chemical education for development and, in particular, for sustainable development in Africa, by sharing experiences among specialists across the African continent and with specialists from other continents.

This book presents the authentic voices of science teachers engaged in practitioner inquiry as one component of a comprehensive professional development program.

This book highlights new developments in the teaching and learning of algebraic thinking with 5- to 12-year-olds.

This edited volume provides a critical discussion of theoretical, methodological, and practical developments of contemporary forms of educational technologies.

This book addresses college students' weak foundation in algebra, its causes, and potential solutions to improve their long-term success and understanding in mathematics as a whole.

This book presents research on the intersection of self-study research, digital technologies, and the development of future-oriented practices in teacher education.

This textbook focuses upon understanding the importance of building an identity of capability as a means of growth, giving, and living a rich and satisfying personal and interpersonal life for people with complex learning disorders.

This book explores college students' lived experiences of using digital technologies for their academic work.

This book provides a comprehensive method for learning modern management processes, and applying those methods to improve leadership in educational settings.

This book addresses the point of intersection between cognition, metacognition, and culture in learning and teaching Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).

This book addresses the intersection of various domains of international law (refugee law, human rights law including child rights international law and humanitarian law) in terms of the implications for State obligations to child refugee asylum seekers in particular; both as collectives and as individual persons.

This book illustrates the problems of using eye tracking technology and other bio-measurements in science education research.

Chapters 1, 6 and 8 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.

This brief will explore how open access repositories are being developed and maintained, in order to provide, disseminate and promote the development of digital educational resources.

This brief presents a new approach to the study of bullying and prejudice in school settings, analyzing the particularities of these two forms of violence and relating them to the hierarchies that distinguish students based on academic performance and popularity.

This book provides a practical, evidence-based guide to teaching introductory Women's and Gender Studies courses.

This book provides an interdisciplinary structure to critique existing approaches that have failed to eradicate systemic inequalities across helping professions.

This book explains the psychological assessment process and reviews the origins of psychological testing, referral and testing processes, and prominent psychological assessment instruments.

This volume examines the theoretical and practical issues related to mentoring/peer mentoring as a support and development strategy for both pre-service and in-service language teachers, and thereby offers a practical and empirical introduction to the field.

This book guides the adoption, design, development and expectation of future digital teaching and learning projects/programs in K12 schools.

This unique volume is one of the first of its kind to examine infancy through an evolutionary lens, identifying infancy as a discrete stage during which particular types of adaptations arose as a consequence of certain environmental pressures.

This book presents the results of the most complete and updated assessment of cognitive resources of students in Latin America: the Study of Latin American Intelligence (SLATINT).

This volume focuses on the implications of digital technologies for educators and educational decision makers that are not widely represented in the literature.