Educational psychology

This book explores emerging practices in distance education that have been facilitated by the development of educational technology.

This book explores how Australian secondary schools prepare their students for global citizenship.

This volume represents current and futuristic thinking of seminal rural education researchers, with the goal of providing perspectives and directions to inform the work of rural education research, practice, and policy.

This book provides state-of-the-art knowledge on how to establish, organize, staff, and develop online education/e-learning programs.

This book introduces the specifics of mathematics lesson study with regard to regional/national particularities, discussing the methodological and theoretical tools that can be used to pursue research on lesson study (its forms, contents, effects etc.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2017, held in Wuhan,China, in June/July 2017.

This book gives insight in the vivid research area of early mathematics learning.

This book synthesizes the latest findings on neuroplasticity and learning, drawing on rich phenomenological research carried out with teachers, psychologists, parents and students from around the world to examine the implications for current teaching and for the advancement of learning methods.

This book offers a socio-cultural examination of contemporary creativity studies.

Creativity Under Duress in Education?

Research within a socio-political paradigm or "e;turn"e; has been gradually recognized and institutionalized as an important part of mathematics education.

This book presents recent advancements in positive psychology, specifically its application across broad areas of current interest.

Based on an ethnographic study involving three families who live on a Midlands council housing estate, this book presents portraits of everyday lives - and the literacy practices that are part of them - as a way to explore the complex relationship between literacy and social justice.

This brief discusses and explains how an educator can use various tools (Use Case, IPO diagrams, flowcharts, entity-relationship diagrams, information mapping) to help visualize how a learning environment will work.

This book offers a novel framework for describing and understanding student identity via the central concept of "e;genre practices"e;, developed through an empirical focus on multimodality within the genre of English as a medium of instruction (EMI) undergraduate presentations.

This volume covers the multidimensional and international field of Heritage Language Education, including concepts, practices, and the correlation between culture and language from the perspectives of pedagogy and research.

This book provides a common language for and makes connections between transfer research in mathematics education and transfer research in related fields.

This book explores how technology can foster interaction between children and their peers, teachers and other adults.

This is an edited volume based on expanded versions of the best 30 papers presented at ETWC 2016 in Bali.

The purpose of this Springer Brief is to provide a comprehensive review of both the STEBI methods and findings through the use of a clearly defined analytic framework.

This volume discusses Alfred Binet's works on pedagogy based on his "e;Orthopedie Mentale"e;.

This book covers Rudolf Steiner's biography, presented from an educational point of view and also unfolds the different aspects of Steiner's educational thought in Waldorf Education.

This book addresses the gap in the literature concerned with global case studies of successful Digital, Mobile and Open Education.

This book provides a diverse look at various aspects of preparing informal science educators.

The book introduces techniques to improve the effectiveness of serious games in relation to cognition and motivation.

This book offers new empirical insights into the current state of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) characterisation (through an innovative proposal to link CLIL to English as a Lingua Franca), implementation (via observation protocols and SWOT analyses), and research (by examining the effects of CLIL on the L1, foreign language, key competences, and content subjects taught through English).

This book delves deep into the hidden population of former gang members who share their positive and negative experiences of being gang members.

This book makes an original contribution to credential sociology by analysing how high school certificates become and remain valuable in a context of mass high school participation (i.

This book explores the theoretical foundations of gamification in learning and education.

This book provides an overview of the design and development of learning games using examples from those created by the authors over last decade.

This edited volume explores the multifaceted nature of teacher emotions, presenting current research from different approaches and perspectives, focused towards the second language classroom.

This handbook presents the current evidence-based psychological treatments for trauma related disorders in childhood and adolescence and in addition provides clearly structured, up-to-date information on the basic principles of traumatic stress research and practice in that age group, covering epidemiology, developmental issues, pathogenetic models, diagnostics, and assessment.

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

The book provides a systemic view of the state-of-the- art of Digital Game Based Learning (DGBL) across the lifespan, from age-specific game design requirements to technological devices that could overcome child and older adult difficulties in the use of DGBL technologies.

This book examines the European discussion about alternative schooling in the 20th century.

This book provides prospective and practicing teachers with research insights into the mathematical difficulties of students with learning disabilities and classroom practices that address these difficulties.

This book focuses on the effect of psychological, social and demographic variables on student achievement and summarizes the current research findings in the field.

This book is a guide to designing curricular games to suit the needs of students.

Over the past few decades there has been increased interest in how students and teachers think and learn about negative numbers from a variety of perspectives.

This book focuses on what school leaders need to know and understand about leadership for learning, and for learning to read in particular.

This book addresses and demonstrates the importance of critical approaches to autoethnography, particularly the commitment that such approaches make to theorizing the personal and to creating work that embodies a social justice ethos.

This book explores new trends and developments in mathematics education research related to proof and proving, the implications of these trends and developments for theory and practice, and directions for future research.

This book analyses technology enhanced learning through the lens of Disruptive Innovation theory.

This book describes recent approaches in advancing STEM education with the use of robotics, innovative methods in integrating robotics in school subjects, engaging and stimulating students with robotics in classroom-based and out-of-school activities, and new ways of using robotics as an educational tool to provide diverse learning experiences.

This book engages with important debates about multicultural British identities at a time when schools are expected to promote Fundamental British Values.

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This book examines the evidence-based interventions that can be used to promote creative thinking skills for children and adolescents in schools.

This book explores new developments and objectives in translator education, with a focus on metacognitive aspects of both translating and learning to become a translator.

This book is aimed at exploring the relevance of social-emotional competencies for preventing preschool children's behavior problems.

The Second Edition of this major reference work expands its coverage and continues to break new ground as an electronic resource for students, educators, researchers, and professionals.