Böcker i Educational Psychology-serien

This research-based volume presents a substantive, panoramic view of ways in which Australia and countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America engage in educational programs and practices to transform the learning processes and outcomes of their students.

Validates the prolific contribution of Dr Vera John-Steiner to the social sciences and extends her scholarship, teaching, and mentoring to a generation of thinkers. This text highlights this scholar's gifts to psychology, education, linguistics, and the arts through a collection of letters composed by students, colleagues, and collaborators.

Validates the prolific contribution of Dr Vera John-Steiner to the social sciences and extends her scholarship, teaching, and mentoring to a new generation of thinkers.

Designed to complement the dominant discourse of school reform by presenting a compendium of critical pedagogical writings that analyze the issues in urban education and demonstrate alternative praxis for failing schools, this book employs a critical pedagogy and praxis in calling for wholesale changes within our urban schools.

Educational Psychology Reader

Through a case study of the five-year teacher education program at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and selected research articles and convention presentations related to the program, this title documents the evolution and achievements of a program that is a model of the best practices for teacher preparation.

Through a case study of the five-year teacher education program at the University of New Hampshire [UNH] and selected research articles and convention presentations related to the program, this title documents the evolution and achievements of a program that is a model of the best practices for teacher preparation.

African American Students in Urban Schools

Cultural Collision and Collusion

Surviving and Thriving with Teacher Action Research is an outstanding companion for educators embarking on the action research journey. The book shares the collected wisdom of more than thirty experienced teacher researchers.

Anxiety in Schools

Designed to complement the dominant discourse of school reform by presenting a compendium of critical pedagogical writings that analyze the issues in urban education and demonstrate alternative praxis for failing schools, this title employs a critical pedagogy and praxis in calling for wholesale changes within our urban schools.

Featuring scholarship from professors and graduate and undergraduate students actively involved in the work they profess, this book intends to make the practice of hip-hop feminist activism practical in our everyday lives that is both compelling and unapologetic.

The revised edition of Educational Psychology Reader: The Art and Science of How People Learn presents an exciting amalgam of educational psychology's research-based reflections framed in twenty-first century critical educational psychology. Featuring a collection of renowned international authors, this text will appeal to scholars across the globe for research and course use.

This companion volume to "Teaching Science for Understanding" exploes how to assess whether scientific learning has taken place. It discusses a range of practical tools for assessment, including concept maps, Venn diagrams, clinical interviews, problems sets and performance-based assessment.

Provides an overview to interpreting empirical data in education. This book reviews data analysis techniques: use and interpretation. It discusses research on learning, instruction, and curriculum, and explores the importance of showing progress as well as cause and effect. It identifies obstacles to applying research into practice.

Examines some of the inquiry related to the study of emotions in educational contexts. This book represents research on emotions and education, and has the potential to impact research in this area.

Provides a comprehensive resource for educational and cognitive psychologists, as well as educators themselves, on the mechanisms and processes of academic learning. Beginning with general themes that cross subject and age levels, this book discusses what motivates students to learn and how knowledge can be made personal for better learning.

One psychological function that has been found to play an important role in educational achievement of children is 'working memory', the processes involved in the temporary maintenance and manipulation of information. This book provides the reader with a review of the research that has identified how working memory relates to academic attainment.

What motivates us to direct our behaviors toward certain goals? To what extent can rewards and/or punishments induce us toward and away from specific actions? This title provides a summary overview of research in this area as well as a forward look into the future of research.

Provides a summary view of what research has determined about both extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, and clarifies what questions remain unanswered. This work includes the effects of extrinsic incentives or constraints on intrinsic motivation and creativity, and identifies theoretical advances in motivational research.

Summarizing research in education, social, developmental, and counseling psychology, this title examines the personality and background of both those who become bullies and those most likely to become their victims. It also discusses bullying similarities and differences in elementary and middle school.

Answers the challenge of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 by promoting evidence-based educational methods designed to improve student learning. This book details each of the approaches to education based on the principles of behavior analysis. It is written by scientist-practitioners.