Educational psychology

This book reports the findings of an interpretive case study of the phenomenon of science investigation (science inquiry) from students' perspective.

This ethnography asks the question, what does learning to teach mean to student teachers and to those around them in an exam-driven rural school in China?

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This book investigates the dynamic relationship between masculinity, fiction and teaching answering one central question.

This book discusses evidence-based practices related to the use of blended learning in both K-12 and higher education settings.

This book investigates the self-concept of the students with intellectual disabilities who were placed in specialist and mainstream educational settings in South Australia.

This book provides in-depth description, explanation, and discussion of goal frustration.

This book systematically summarizes the author's more than 30 years of experience in teaching reform and educational research.

This book focuses on piano teachers and the many pains they encounter in their careers.

This book examines educators and parents' practices of corporal punishment of preschool-aged children in school and at home in Tanzania, considering why it is that many children in Tanzania are still subject to corporal punishment.

This book provides an introduction to what it means to be numerate, and how numeracy can best be developed and nurtured in children and in adults.

This book provides an account of a large-scale, national STEM initiative in Australia, the Maths Inside Project, which is designed to increase secondary school students' engagement and participation in mathematics.

This book is a useful guide for the teaching fraternity, administrators and education technology professionals to make good use of AI across outcome-based technical education (OBTE) ecosystem and infuse innovations and affordable digital technologies to traditional pedagogic processes to make teaching-learning more independent of human factor (teacher/student quality), time and place and at the same time more impactful and enjoyable for the learners.

This book provides groundbreaking evidence demonstrating how student-authored explanatory animations can embody and document learning as an exciting new development within digital pedagogy.

This book addresses student passivity in teacher education.

This book gathers work from over a decade of study, and seeks to better understand and support how learners become tradespeople.

This book draws on theory, research, and practice-oriented literature to offer an introduction to flipped learning and offer busy instructors advice on how to flip their academic English language courses.

This edited volume brings together diverse perspectives on Australian literacy education for Indigenous peoples, highlighting numerous educational approaches, ideologies and aspirations.

This book addresses the difficult challenges that children with autism present educators.

This book explores foundational theories that have been applied in open and distance education (ODE) research and refined to reflect advances in research and practice.

This book presents three case studies that examine how English language students construct affinity spaces to secure target language-mediated socializing opportunities with local people in both academic and non-academic contexts.

This book helps teachers understand the links between cooperative learning (also known as collaborative learning and peer learning) and other student-centered approaches.

This international handbook provides a sophisticated re-examination of self-study of teaching and teacher education practices research 16 years after the publication of the first edition by Springer (2004).

This book introduces the construct of teacher adaptive practices, extending existing research on teacher adaptability into classroom practices.

This is the first ever handbook on giftedness and talent development for the Asia-Pacific region.

This book illustrates a practical application of the Case Method as a teaching technique in teacher education, and examines how learning takes place in a teacher professional development activity.

This book analyses the organisation cultures that promote Japanese Lesson Study, identifies the soul of lesson study, which is missing in other cultures, and discusses the conditions for successfully transplanting the Lesson Study to other cultures.

This book contributes to a better understanding of street children and youth within Sub-Saharan Africa.

This book examines what collaboration means in practice, and the factors that enable effective team collaboration for learning and teaching in higher education.

This book investigates how problem-based learning can be implemented in language classes and how it can bring about a change in language learners' understanding of the foreign language.

This book situates Massive Open Online Courses and open learning within a broader educational, economic and social context.

This book draws on experiences from a range of vocational education systems in different nation states and re-examines the purpose of providing experiences outside educational institutions; the kinds and extent of those experiences; and efforts made to ensure the integration of students' experiences across sites.

This book offers a collection of original, peer-reviewed studies by scholars working to develop a knowledge base of teaching and facilitating self-study research methodology.

This book addresses this challenge by proposing an integration of sustainability and arts education in both principle and practice.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of child abuse and neglect globally in general terms and with empirical evidence from Puducherry, India.

This book explores the notion of software literacy, a key part of digital literacy which all contemporary students and citizens need to understand.

This book is the first comprehensive account of developments in open and distance non-formal education in developing countries for over more than 20 years.

This book provides a fresh approach to studies on adolescents with visual impairment.

This book describes key practices to bring school mental health programs to scale in a sustainable and effective manner.

This book explores the concept of school belonging in adolescents from a socio-ecological perspective, acknowledging that young people are uniquely connected to a broad network of groups and systems within a school system.

If mobile technologies are to be effectively used in education, how do we best implement sustainable mobile solutions for teaching and learning?

This book redefines teacher in-service education as being less about participation in a program and more about the opportunity for teachers to experience a process of learning that is personally meaningful and contextually relevant to their own teaching practice.

This book explores how Chinese students abroad may suffer stress, and how they conceptualize and adapt to stress in the American higher education environment.

The editors of this book have brought together contributors from many parts of the world.

This book describes a comparative study of the primary science learning objectives (from the cognitive domain) in the curriculum of six high-achieving East Asian states - mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Singapore.

While firmly acknowledging the importance of play in early childhood, this book interrogates the assumption that play is a birthright.

This book presents an analysis of corporal punishment practices in rural schools.

The subject of this book is young children's emotional-social learning and development within early childhood care and education settings in Aotearoa-New Zealand.

This book highlights participatory video as an instrument for community-based adult education and focuses in particular on the role that it can play in promoting participatory culture among adult learners.

This book reports the impact a four-year longitudinal study (Representations, Oral Language and Engagement in Mathematics (RoleM)) had on teachers and students from 16 schools in disadvantaged contexts.