Educational psychology

This book focuses on the integration of information and communication technologies (ICT) into K-12 education.

This textbook focuses on research in movement integration and the benefits of physical activity to the child's physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development.

This book provides readers a better understanding of the interaction-learning relationship in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context.

Taking up a social constructionist position, this book illustrates the social and cultural construction of autism as made visible in everyday, educational, institutional and historical discourses, alongside a careful consideration of the bodily and material realities of embodied differences.

This short book provides an introduction to the study of education, outlining the dual purpose of education - to help people live well and to help develop a world worth living in.

The Sourcebook introduces the theoretical and ideological foundation and methodological basis of Rights-based Direct Practice with Children.

This book examines research on creative thinking, both current and historical.

This book proposes and validates an information flow approach to analyzing knowledge co-construction and predicting group performance in the context of collaborative learning.

This book takes an in-depth look at the development of the private education sector in modern China.

This festschrift volume brings together important contributions by expert syntacticians across the globe on tense and finiteness, adjectives, dative and ergative case, acquisition of case, and other topics both within the domain of Dravidian linguistics and in the broader theoretical understanding of cross-linguistic data.

This book addresses basic issues in language education and explores how reading, with a focus on meaning, contributes to the development of all aspects of language including vocabulary, spelling, grammar, and syntax.

This book unravels the mysteries of the Chinese school system to enable international scholars to better understand the logic of basic education in China.

This book first develops a framework to understand the curriculum administration system in China.

This volume discusses the need for a major paradigm shift in educational practice in the current digital and globalized world.

This book focuses on the interrelationship between international student connectedness and identity from transnational and transdisciplinary perspectives.

This book uses research and personal stories from university lecturers to explore pedagogical strategies that illuminate how students' minds can be 'switched on' in order to unlock their extraordinary potential.

This book addresses a central question: how did cognition emerge in human history?

This book uses a mixed-method approach to address the topic of personal epistemology among Chinese engineering doctoral students from U.

Edusemiotics is a pioneering area of study that connects semiotics - the science of signs - with educational theory and the philosophy of education.

This book is an interdisciplinary text exploring the learning and educative potentials of cities and their spaces, including urban and suburban contexts, at all stages of life.

Already the focus of much interest for 50 years, the study of foreign language learning anxiety (FLLA) still remains a popular research topic among scholars in Western countries.

This book consists of a collection of selected papers presented at the TARC International Conference 2016 held from 17 to 18 October, 2016.

The first book in the series Policy and Pedagogy with Under-three year olds: Cross Disciplinary insights and innovations establishes a path for the much-needed examination of the experiences of infants and toddlers in contemporary educational settings across the globe.

These conference proceedings explore the design of pedagogical intervention and learning cultures, the inclusion of socio-emotional support in teaching and policy, transforming technology to support the social fabric of our institutions, and challenging established beliefs about learning.

The book presents the possibilities and realities of virtual worlds in education through the application of 3D virtual worlds to support authentic learning, creativity, learner engagement and cultural diversity in higher education.

This book describes the current state of the art of various types of immersive learning: in research, in practice, and in the marketplace.

In this edited collection, the authors pick up the communities of practice (CoP) approach of sharing practice in their reflection on the experience of taking their CoP vision from a dream to reality.

This book describes, problematises and theorises professional practice research in a range of Australian settings to provide evidence of robust, wide-ranging and contemporary approaches to professional experience in initial teacher education.

This book covers a broad range of innovations in education, such as flipped classrooms, the educational use of social media, mobile learning, educational resources and massive open online courses, as well as theoretical discussions and practical applications in the use of augmented reality and educational technology to improve student engagement and pave the way for students' future studies and careers.

This book presents the multiple facets of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in higher education across various academic disciplines, an area that is expected to grow constantly in response to the competitive global higher education market.

This integrated collection of perspectives on the spaces of teaching and learning uses 'learning space' to place educational practice in context.

This book introduces the advanced technologies used for authentic learning, an educational term that refers to a variety of techniques focusing on how students apply the skills and knowledge acquired in school in real-world situations.

Given the increasing speed of change and the information explosion around the world, this book draws attention to the practice of teaching for conceptual understanding, which has been heralded as an effective approach within many curriculum frameworks.

This book is the second volume in a series presenting new English translations of L.

This pivot considers the impact of INSET courses on EFL teachers practicing under the national curriculum reform in China.

This book advocates for a radical change in music teaching and learning methods, allowing for a break from the traditional conservatory model still in use in many classrooms.

This book presents cutting-edge research findings in areas critical to advancing reading research in the 21st century context, including new literacies, reading motivation, strategy instruction, and reading intervention studies.

This book explores contemporary perspectives and research on inclusion, providing a platform for discussing inclusion at an international level and its intersections with belonging and equity.

This book examines current context-specific trends and developments in empirical research on arts education and arts in education, in order to evaluate and create responsive approaches to future global challenges.

This book clarifies the fundamental difference between North America-based instrumental motivation and Korea (and East Asia)-specific competitive motivation by which the EFL learners' excessive competition to be admitted to famous universities and to be hired at a large-scale conglomerate is the main source of L2 motivation.

This book goes through the changing pattern of various stages of teacher education development in Autism Spectrum Disorder, and then analyses the factors bearing on them.

This book explores mobile learning as a form of learning particularly suited to our ever more mobile world, presenting a new conceptualisation of the value of mobile devices in education through the metaphor of lenses on learning.

This book introduces readers to the latest state of research and development in seamless learning.

The book illustrates how Lesson Study can be applied to craft metacognitive teaching strategies to enhance students' learning to learn competencies.

This book reflects on science education in the first 20 years of the 21st century in order to promote academic dialogue on science education from various standpoints, and highlights emergent new issues, such as education in science education research.

This book presents a collection of papers from RMIT's annual learning and teaching conference, Transformations in Tertiary Education: The Scholarship of Engagement at RMIT.

This book provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of research on technical and vocational education in China.