Educational psychology

This volume integrates and makes sense of the growing body of theoretical and empirical research conducted on purpose across the lifespan.

This volume presents evidence-based ideas on all three converging forces to suit an array of individuals and their organisations.

This volume provides an overview of the research describing the effects of child maltreatment on mental health, cognitive and social-emotional development.

This book deals with street children who live in the developing world, and homeless youth who are from the developed world.

This book provides an in-depth insight into the Dedicated Education Units (DEU) clinical learning strategy.

This Handbook examines core questions still remaining in the field of child maltreatment.

This volume examines the EU's changing educational context and its challenges.

This book analyses and elaborates on learning processes within work environments and explores professional learning.

This book offers a challenge to traditional approaches to classroom teaching and pedagogy.

This book explores a new pedagogical model called The Third Model, which places the encounter between the child and the curriculum at the center of educational theory and practice.

In response to highly publicized incidents of school violence, educators across the United States and in many other nations are seeking effective ways to prevent and modify aggressive and anti-social behaviors in students.

Rasch Analysis in the Human Sciences helps individuals, both students and researchers, master the key concepts and resources needed to use Rasch techniques for analyzing data from assessments to measure variables such as abilities, attitudes, and personality traits.

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Information from neuroscience is growing and being properly used, and misused wich makes it imperative that educators receive accurate and practical information.

This book provides new theoretical insights to our understanding of play as a cultural activity.

This book provides readers with an overview of recent international research and developments in the teaching and learning of modelling and applications from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives.

This book presents recent positive psychological research, applications and interventions being used among adolescents and children.

This book proposes that research into generative second language acquisition (GenSLA) can be applied to the language classroom.

Bringing together a wide collection of ideas, reviews, analyses and new research on particulate and structural concepts of matter, Concepts of Matter in Science Education informs practice from pre-school through graduate school learning and teaching and aims to inspire progress in science education.

This book brings together internationally recognised scholars with an interest in how to use the power of assessment to improve student learning and to engage with accountability priorities at both national and global levels.

This volume provides essential guidance for transforming mathematics learning in schools through the use of innovative technology, pedagogy, and curriculum.

This book tackles the latest challenges in education in the business sector, outlining how the students of the future must be taught to adapt to a highly fluid business environment in which their ability to acquire new skills and collaborate with others is more important than possessing facts.

This volume addresses questions that lie at the core of research into education.

Among the welter of books on critical pedagogy, this volume will be especially valued for its direct focus on early years and elementary educators.

This book makes a major contribution to knowledge and theory by drawing implications of teacher effectiveness research for the field of teacher training and professional development.

Children's learning and understanding of science during their pre-school years has been a neglected topic in the education literature-something this volume aims to redress.

This vital addition to Springer's 'Educating the Young Child' series addresses gaps in the literature on father involvement in the lives of young children, a topic with a fast-rising profile in today's world of female breadwinners and single-parent households.

Reunification is a primary goal of foster care systems and the most common permanency planning decision.

Identifying 'networked flow' as the key driver of networked creativity, this new volume in the Springer Briefs series deploys concepts from a range of sub-disciplines in psychology to suggest ways of optimizing the innovative potential of creative networks.

Spanning the divide between the theory and praxis of competency-based teaching in tertiary language education, this volume contains invaluable practical guidance for the post-secondary sector on how to approach, teach, and assess competencies in Bologna-adapted systems of study.

The closely argued and provocative contributions to this volume challenge psychology's hegemony as an interpretive paradigm in a range of social contexts such as education and child development.

This edited volume of papers from the twenty first International Conference on Chemical Education attests to our rapidly changing understanding of the chemistry itself as well as to the potentially enormous material changes in how it might be taught in the future.

In a context where schools are held more and more accountable for the education they provide, data-based decision making has become increasingly important.

This volume addresses the key issue of the initial education and lifelong professional learning of teachers of mathematics to enable them to realize the affordances of educational technology for mathematics.

Developmental Education is an approach to education in school that aims at promoting children's cultural development and their abilities to participate autonomously and well-informed in the cultural practices of their community.

Reflecting the very latest theory on diversity issues in science education, including new dialogic approaches, this volume explores the subject from a range of perspectives and draws on studies from around the world.

The Asia-Pacific region needs to maximize the benefits of education to enable it to compete in an economic future dominated by innovation, in which assessing student progress must be an empowering rather than delimiting factor.

This volume takes on the vital tasks of celebrating, challenging, and attempting to move forward our understanding of equity and diversity in science education.

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an important part of the OECD's Indicator Programme.

It goes without saying that atomic structure, including its dual wave-particle nature, cannot be demonstrated in the classroom.

This book, by combining sociocultural, material, cognitive and embodied perspectives on human knowing, offers a new and powerful conceptualisation of epistemic fluency - a capacity that underpins knowledgeable professional action and innovation.

This volume offers a critical examination of a variety of conceptual approaches to teaching and learning chemistry in the school classroom.

Learning in informal settings is attracting growing attention from policymakers and researchers, yet there remains, at the moment, a dearth of literature on the topic.

In contemporary society, science constitutes a significant part of human life in that it impacts on how people experience and understand the world and themselves.

Part of a vital Springer series on self-study practices in teaching and teacher education, this collection offers a range of contributions to the topic that embody the reflections of science teacher educators who have applied self-study methodology to their own professional development.

This book considers the views of participants in the process of becoming a mathematician, that is, the students and the graduates.

Core concepts in education are changing.

This work presents one of the original and fundamental experiments of Didactique, a research program whose underlying tenet is that Mathematics Education research should be solidly based on scientific observation.

This book synthesizes research findings on patterns in the last twenty years or so in order to argue for a theory of graded representations in pattern generalization.

The work of the Kyoto School represents one of the few streams of philosophy that originate in Japan.