Educational Psychology

Maximizing student capacity and restoring motivation—the key to school success Brain research has the power to revolutionize education, but it c...

This highly accessible guide to the varied aspects of Vygotsky’s psychology emphasises his abiding interest in education. Vygotsky was a teacher, a...

Now more than ever, students need support. To meet their needs, educators should encourage their students to break from the mainstream by inspectin...

This book contains an innovative and important series of studies of the complex relations of major cities associated with key moments in the histor...

This edited volume grew out of a conference that brought together beginning reading experts from the fields of education and the psychology of read...

Unleash powerful teaching and the science of learning in your classroom Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning empowers educators to ha...

Are you sick of classroom management advice that doesn’t match your daily existence or address the realities of the classroom? In this helpful new ...

First published in 1999. The purpose of this book is to give detailed practical suggestions to teachers so that their pupils remember more effectiv...

First published in 1998. This is the second edition Communication Before Speech and reflects the new developments in the fields of language acquisi...

First published in 1985, The Child in Context is the first to bring together the practice of educational psychology and the ‘family-systems’ theori...

This edition represents a thorough reworking, expansion and updating of an earlier work, distributed in manuscript from under the title Acquisition...

First Published in 1998. This book is about the development of children's social behaviour, about their abilities to engage in social interactions ...

First Published in 1999. Helping children come to terms with and be aware of loss, change and grief is an undeveloped area within education althoug...

Leveraging AI for Human-Centered Learning provides intentional approaches to the integration of artificial intelligence tools into middle and high ...

Drawing on a comprehensive theoretical foundation encompassing socio-constructivism, social learning, and motivation, this book offers a new theore...

Connecting with students on a personal level is a very important aspect of teaching, but how can we ensure students are just as connected to what t...

Break through the bias barrier What can happen in 200 milliseconds? In a word, everything. In that short time, your subconscious mind has shaped yo...

This work examines the issues which affect the participation, achievement and social inclusion of children with medical conditions in education. Th...

First Published in 1999. This practical text explores children's emotional development and the correlation between emotional security and effective...

This book explains the importance of psychological factors for achievement and performance in competitive sport. It deals with the development of a...

First Published in 1999. This book is about the use of a specific collaborative problem-solving approach as part of a Continuing Professional Devel...

First Published in 2000. The topic area of this book is amongst the priority items on this Government’s agenda and is a key part of social policy a...

First Published in 1999. Each publication in this series of books is concerned with approaches to intervention with children with specific needs in...

Fremdsprachenkenntnisse sind nicht nur Teil einer umfassenden Allgemeinbildung, sondern tragen im Zeitalter der Globalisierung auch dazu bei, im be...

First published in 1987. Teachers throughout the Western world identify motivating pupils and coping with classroom disruption as being among their...

In Visible Learning: Lesson Planning, John Hattie and Klaus Zierer make explicit how to implement the world-famous Visible Learning research into t...

"A must read for all educators who want to get inside the teenage brain."—Eric Jensen, Author and Consultant "Masterfully distills brain research i...

This interdisciplinary book has contributions from scholars in the US, the EU, Korea, and Hungary from the fields of political science and educatio...

Praise for the first edition: `The underlying philosophy of this practical book is that raising self-esteem in pupils (including dyslexics) will l...

New from the author of the million-selling Pedagogy of the OppressedIn an era when teachers and states are resisting high-stakes testing, this new ...

At some point in every teacher′s career he/she will encounter the `hard class′ and from day one the countdown to the end of the day, term and year ...

Tap the power of emotional intelligence and watch school-wide achievement soar!"Bringing all this information together in one spot is quite a contr...

Despite numerous highly publicized incidents and widespread calls for reform, hazing continues to plague many of the nation's institutions. In this...

First published in 1986, Handicapping Conditions in Children provides an accessible overview of a wide range of handicapping conditions and their r...

"The information is practical, and the examples make the material very easy to apply. The tone of the book is perfect for educators of middle and h...

Many educational practices are based upon ideas about what it means to be human. Thus education is conceived as the production of particular subjec...

"Real learning is deeply personal. It requires that learners participate meaningfully in the ideas and subjects that they explore as they shape and...

"Describes activities at a level of detail that will allow teachers to immediately try them out in their own classrooms. If more classrooms reflect...

The importance of interagency cooperation within children’s services has been highlighted within recent government strategy, including the Every Ch...

"Within this robust collection, the reader is soon privy to a noble and notable vision of schooling in which mindfulness permeates the metaphorical...