Educational psychology

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.

During the last several decades, self-regulation of learning has permeated all areas of learning and development, including teaching preparation programs.

This book specifies the foundation for Adapted Primary Literature (APL), a novel text genre that enables the learning and teaching of science using research articles that were adapted to the knowledge level of high-school students.

Based on action research and implementation at one of the world's great schools, this book provides a much-needed exploration of how to implement positive education at a whole school level.

This book has one explicit purpose: to present a new theory of cultural learning in organisations which combines practice-based learning with cultural models - a cognitive anthropological schema theory of taken-for-granted connections - tied to the everyday meaningful use of artefacts.

This book emphasizes the significance of teaching science in early childhood classrooms, reviews the research on what young children are likely to know about science and provides key points on effectively teaching science to young children.

This book addresses issues confronting universities' attempts to integrate practice-based learning in higher education curriculum, yet which reveals the jostling of cultures which exist within and amongst the academy, industry, government and professional bodies and other educational providers.

This second volume of papers from the ATC21STM project deals with the development of an assessment and teaching system of 21st century skills.

This book moves beyond the traditional constructivist and social-constructivist view of learning and development in science.

This book provides an overview of science educationpolicies, research and practices in mainland China, with specific examples ofthe most recent developments in these areas.

This edited book presents the most recent theory, research and practice on information and technology literacy as it relates to the education of young children.

The third volume of the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers his work on the application of flow in areas that go beyond the field of leisure where the concept was first applied.

The second volume in the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers about thirty years of Csikszentmihalyi's work on three main and interconnected areas of study: attention, flow and positive psychology.

This first volume of the Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi represents his work on Art and Creativity.

Prompted by the ongoing debate among science educators over 'nature of science', and its importance in school and university curricula, this book is a clarion call for a broad re-conceptualizing of nature of science in science education.

This volume describes a culture-fair perspective on positive psychology research and practice in Latin America.

The International Handbook on Learning, Teaching and Leading in Faith Based Schools is international in scope.

This book conceptualizes the 'lived spaces' of infant and toddler early education and care settings by bringing together international authors researching within diverse theoretical frameworks.

This book promotes the experimental mathematics approach in the context of secondary mathematics curriculum by exploring mathematical models depending on parameters that were typically considered advanced in the pre-digital education era.

This book samples recent and emerging trust research in education including an array of conceptual approaches, measurement innovations, and explored determinants and outcomes of trust.

This book focuses on the prevention of child abuse and neglect deaths in the U.

This book is a critical assessment of the knowledge base on educational effectiveness, covering a period of five decades of research.

This book advances understandings about and practices for effectively integrating practice-based (e.

Seven years after its publication in Germany, this book is now available to English readers.

The almost universal rejection of the notion of symbols as `carriers of meaning' has created the need to find an alternative for the use of models as embodiments of mathematical concepts.

Legal Issues of Special Education is for university faculty staff teaching courses on education law and policy.

Contributions by leading experts and others to understanding the crucial role of metacognition in relation to broad areas of education make this collection a uniquely stimulating book.

Change is an ongoing aspect of education and educators are always seeking alternative and effective approaches to it.

An important challenge for our world is to understand how cultural understanding and geographical education can be linked and used to improve the global society.

What mathematics is entailed in knowing to act in a moment?

Geographers regard fieldwork as a vital instrument for understanding our world through direct experience, for gathering basic data about this world, and as a fundamental method for enacting geographical education.

Many workplaces have become characterized as learning organizations where knowledge workers provide the required competitive edge.

Business education and business research has often been criticized by the business community, which claims that much of it is mainly directed at the establishment of teachers and researchers themselves, instead of distributing their knowledge to the business community.

Almost thirty years ago a friend involved in the education profession told me that in his estimation much more was "e;caught"e; by students outside of classrooms than was "e;taught"e; within those hallowed walls.

Like previous volumes in the "e;Educational Innovation in Economics and Business"e; series, this one is genuinely international in terms of its coverage.

Designing for Learning in Networked Learning Environments is of interest to researchers and students, designers, educators, and industrial trainers across various disciplines including education, cognitive, social and educational psychology, didactics, computer science, linguistics and semiotics, speech communication, anthropology, sociology and design.

We are pleased to present the ESERA 2001 Conference book, which is based on contributions submitted and presented to the Third International Conference "e;Science Education Research in the Knowledge Based Society"e; that was organised by the Department of Primary Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and held in Thessaloniki from August 21 to August 26, 2001.

This book is about the teaching and study of the humanities in our universities.

This volume presents a "e;photograph"e; of the state of the art in Science Education Research in Europe as it has emerged from the first ESERA Conference held in Rome in September 1997.

The system of vocational and adult education and training in Europe offers young people and adults the opportunity to learn to play an effective part in the workplace and elsewhere in society.

The theme of "e;Learning in a Changing Environment"e; reflects the way in which educational thinking in Higher Education has undergone a rapid change throughout the world.

Undeniably, language is at the core of human existence.

Behavioral and cognitive development is considered here as an ordered change in an individual throughout his or her lifespan, and not as sets of individual differences between persons, nor as stage-like progressions.

This is an investigation of the thoughts concerning education in the writings of one of the most original educators of the eighteenth century.

This volume was inspired by an annual meeting of the American Col- lege of N europsychopharmacology held in Maui, Hawaii.

In 1972, Dr Margaret Pollak published her book Today's Three-Year- Oids in London.

This volume consists of the revised versions I of a selection of papers of the second EDINEB conference, held in Uppsala from 17-19 August 1995.