Author: McKee, Neil Alexander Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Accelerated Trainer opens with this premise: both the learner and the trainer need to overcome their hangups, and abandon any psychological baggage before they start. From there, the author goes ...
Author: Bauer Publisher: Academic Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Volume 37 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series includes ?? chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in developmental and educational psychology. A wide array of top...
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Description: For decades, researchers and policymakers have grappled with the issue of the underachievement of African American students. An age-old problem has been that these students on average lag behind their...
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Author: Nichols, Sharon L. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The media's presentation suggests that American teenage culture today is the most violent, sexual, and amoral youth culture in history. In this book, Nichols and Good deconstruct the negative images h...
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Description: A volume in The Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education series (Sponsored by the Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group and the National Middle School Association ) Studies like...
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Description: This book presents a rigorous empirical exploration of the ideas of George Herbert Mead. While Mead's work has been highly influential, there are few empirical studies that instantiate his conception ...
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Description: Presents a wide range of perspectives on a new area of research in high ability- the non-cognitive facets contributing to exceptional achievement, such a giftedness, talent, creativity, excellence, ge...
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Author: McInerney, Dennis M Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This text seeks to revisit major theories of motivation and learning in order to evaluate the relevance of each theory to our complex educational environments. The chapters are written by the renowned...
Author: Novick, Bernard / Kress, Jeffrey S. / Elias, Maurice J. Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
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Author: Haynes, Joanna Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This fully revised second edition suggests ways in which you can introduce philosophical enquiry to your Personal, Social and Health Education and Citizenship teaching and across the curriculum.
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Description: Classroom Discourse and the Space of Learning is about learning in schools and the central role of language in learning. The book explicates the necessary conditions for successful learning and employ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Cognitive load theory (CLT) is one of the most important theories in educational psychology, a highly effective guide for the design of multimedia and other learning materials. This edited volume brin...
Author: Dewey, John Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: John Dewey (October 20, 1859 - June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been very influential to education and social reform. Dewey, along wit...
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Description: The key question this book addresses is how to identify and create optimal conditions for the kind of learning and development that is especially important for effectively functioning in the 21st cent...
Description: The key question this book addresses is how to identify and create optimal conditions for the kind of learning and development that is especially important for effectively functioning in the 21st cent...
Author: Wigfield, Allan Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book discusses research and theory on how motivation changes as children progress through school, gender differences in motivation, and motivational differences as an aspect of ethnicity. Motivat...
Author: Wells, Gordon Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
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Description: This book is a landmark in contemporary cultural psychology. Ernest Boesch's synthesis of ideas is the first comprehensive theory of culture in psychology since Wilhelm Wundt's Volkerpsychologie of th...
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Description: In this volume, David Geary provides a comprehensive theory that brings children's education into the 21st century, and provides directions for the development of a new discipline, evolutionary educat...
Author: Martinez, Michael E. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The book argues that the intellectual abilities that are crucial to modern life correspond to the cognitive functions that are reasonably called intelligence. These intellectual abilities are learnabl...
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Description: This edited book examines some of the current inquiry related to the study of emotions in educational contexts. There has been a notable increased interest in educational research on emotions. Emotion...
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Description: A volume in Adult Education Special Topics: Theory, Research, and Practice in Lifelong Learning Series Editor: Kathleen P. King, Fordham University This unique volume of writings by educators in the f...
Author: Hughes, Bob Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Play is a crucial component in the development of all children. In this fully updated and revised edition of his classic playwork text, Bob Hughes explores the complexities of children's play, its mea...
Author: Hughes, Bob Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Play is a crucial component in the development of all children. In this fully updated and revised edition of his classic playwork text, Bob Hughes explores the complexities of children's play, its mea...
Author: ZAREVIC, RADOSLAV RATKO Publisher: Rade Format: Adobe PDF
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Description: This introductory volume by pscychoanalytic authority, Deborah Britzman, explores key controversies of education through a Freudian approach.
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Females consistently score lower than males on standardized tests of mathematics yet no such differences exist in the classroom. These differences are not trivial, nor are they insignificant. Test s...
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Description: "Gender in Early Childhood" explores the ways in which young children perceive, and are perceived, as gendered individuals and members of a gendered society. Careful research is brought to bear on a w...
Author: Saklofske, Donald Publisher: Academic Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The "Handbook of Psychoeducational Assessment" is a practical guide for educational and psychological professionals using norm-referenced tests in the ability, achievement, and behavioral assessment o...
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Description: This handbook examines learning and instruction in a variety of classroom and non-classroom environments and with a variety of learners, both K-16 students and adult learners.
Author: Boekaerts, Monique Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Handbook of Self-Regulation represents state-of-the-art coverage of the latest theory, research, and developments in applications of self-regulation research. Chapters are of interest to psycholog...
Author: McInerney, Dennis M. Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This very accessible book reflects the insight and breadth of understanding of an acknowledged expert. It also instructs in a most engaging fashion. While current theory and research provide a sound s...
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Description: Women have started a search for a new definition of self. They have been spiritually growing, but in the process started to loose their counterparts. Men and women are becoming more and more distant f...
Author: Strayer, George Drayton / Norsworthy, Naomi Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Excerpts from preface: The art of teaching is based primarily upon the science of psychology. In this book the authors have sought to make clear the principles of psychology which are involved in teac...
Author: Schoenfeld, Alan H Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In How We Think, esteemed scholar and mathematician Alan Schoenfeld proposes a groundbreaking theory and model about how we think and act in the classroom and beyond.
Author: Mosher, Ralph, L Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This collection of writings describes the thinking of psychologists and educators regarding interactive development across the spectrum of competency domains within the individual. Research emphasizin...
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Description: Social psychological research has revealed much about how personal and interpersonal factors impact academic achievement. The research has been reported in several different outlets but has never befo...
Author: Brooks, Jacqueline Grennon / Brooks, Martin G. Publisher: ASCD Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The activities that transpire within the classroom either help or hinder students learning. Any meaningful discussion of educational reform, therefore, must focus explicitly and directly on the classr...