Educational psychology

Drawing on her neurology expertise and classroom experience, author Judy Willis examined decades of learning-centered brain research to determine what information was most valid and relevant for educators.

Research on students' media use outside of education is just slowly taking off.

This timely text offers a how-to guide for analyzing gesture and multimodality in second language learning and teaching.

Growing Children's Social and Emotional Skills examines how parent-educator partnerships can be achieved to enhance the development of children's social and emotional skills.

This book describes all of the important factors that cause some students to have low reading achievement and others to have high reading achievement.

This book shows how collective intelligence combined with new technologies can help us solve the world''s biggest problems.

Executive functions are a set of cognitive processes we use to act on information, manage resources, and plan and monitor our own behaviour, all with the aim of achieving an end goal.

The twenty chapters in this book all focus on aspects of mathematical beliefs, from a variety of different perspectives.

Originally published in 1940, this book was addressed to students of the psychology of childhood and to parents and teachers who were trying to get from psychology some light on problems of discipline and of the difficult child.

The expert contributors to this book make sense of the different approaches to understanding pupil behavior in schools, providing a comprehensive overview thorough discussion of key topics.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the global response to it have disrupted the daily lives of children in innumerable ways.

In the current era where lifelong learning is brought to the fore, higher education can no longer be regarded as an isolated trajectory within one's educational career as many students face substantial challenges in crafting their professional future.

School transition is a life changing event for children - they are rarely faced with such a powerful set of personal and social changes.

Play is critical to children's well-being and development.

The intent of this book is to describe how a professor can provide a learning en vironment that assists students to come to grips with the nature of science and engineering, to understand science and engineering concepts, and to solve problems in science and engineering courses.

This book seeks to illustrate the research on mathematics competencies and disposition in China according to the conceptual development and empirical investigation perspective.

Since the mid-1970s, scientific and educational research has left a gap in the field of basic and applied research on transfer of learning.

As they play, children do more than imagine--they also invent life-long approaches to thinking, feeling, and relating to other people.

A conceptual and practical toolkit for creating learning processes with the help of interventions in workplaces, schools and communities.

The Handbook of Human and Social Conditions in Assessment is the first book to explore assessment issues and opportunities occurring due to the real world of human, cultural, historical, and societal influences upon assessment practices, policies, and statistical modeling.

Making Minds is a controversial critique of our education systems.

This book situates zoos as trusted cultural institutions with valuable affordances for engaging people in natural resource conservation.

This text is for regular classroom teachers who work with special needs learners in their classrooms, and the specialists and administrators who support these populations.

Drawing together example studies from international contexts, this edited collection provides a new and cross-disciplinary perspective on the concept of the possible self, exploring its theoretical, methodological and empirical uses with regards to Higher Education.

This book provides readers with an overview of the implications for research of the theoretical work which acknowledges a debt to the writings of L.

Criminological research has largely neglected the possibility that positive peer influence is a potentially powerful source of social control.

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Mood Disorders, 2/e reflects the important and fast-changing advancements that have occurred in theory and practice in unipolar and bipolar mood disorders.

Delivers the first uniform diagnostic classification system for conducting FBAsThis manual presents a unique pioneering classification system, written by the author of a bestselling textbook on functional behavioral assessment, for school psychologists and other personnel who conduct FBAs for problem behaviors.

Stoic wisdom has become popular for helping us focus on what we can and can't control in life.

Solution Focused Brief Therapy in Alternative Schools (SFBT) provides a step-by-step guide for how school social workers and counselors can work with other school professionals to create an effective solution focused dropout prevention program.

Iona and Peter Opie were twentieth-century pioneers.

This book evaluates new programs that aim to reduce minority youth unemployment by improving high school students'' marketable job skills.

As cognitive models of behavior continue to evolve, the mechanics of cognitive exceptionality, with its range of individual variations in abilities and performance, remains a challenge to psychology.

By approaching the concept of community through the lens of early childhood, this valuable book acknowledges the role that diverse and multiple communities play in supporting a child's early development, and explores how their value can be harnessed in our ever-evolving and fast-changing world.

When Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist published, it was unique in several ways.

Early Learning and Development offers new models of ''conceptual play'' practice and theory.

Psychoanalysis and Severe Disorders in Young Children presents case material and resources for professionals working with young children in the clinic and in the community.

Acclaimed as a text and professional development tool, this user-friendly resource has now been revised and updated, and offers expanded coverage of collaborative action research (CAR) and participatory action research (PAR).

One of the critical factors in early development is the formation of a secure attachment, and it continues to be important for older children's responses to psychological stressors like hurt pride, fear, and sadness.

This book presents a broad range of research related to how social knowledge is shared, transmitted and transformed in the context of education and professional formation.

The Psychology of Human Social Development provides a comprehensive introduction to the essential core topics and exciting new findings in this thriving field of developmental psychology.

Find out howand whysports can help you better understand your studentsBecause participation in sports is an integral part of the educational experience for students in both public and private schools, it's essential that school psychologists and counselors have a solid foundation to help ensure the well-being of student-athletes.

This book discusses a range of interventions that can be implemented in schools to prevent radicalization and violent extremism.

In this updated 2nd edition of the ASCD best-seller, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey dig deeper into the hows and whys of the gradual release of responsibility instructional framework.

In this funny and insightful book, Gary Rubinstein relives his own truly disastrous first year of teaching.

The Social and Emotional Curriculum for Gifted Students series provides the gifted resource specialist, regular classroom teacher, or counselor with the tools they need to help gifted students in grades 3-5 develop interpersonal skills, reflect on their often intense emotions, and express their creativity.

The fourth edition of this highly praised book includes coverage of evidence-based education and No Child Left Behind.

Single Case Research Methodology, 3rd Edition presents a thorough, technically sound, user-friendly, and comprehensive discussion of single case research methodology.

Language is of central importance in children's development and vital for their success at school and in the world beyond.

One doesn't have to travel extensively to realize that there are intriguing differences in the ways in which people from different cultures tend to behave.