Educational Psychology

This book provides the most comprehensive, balanced, and up-to-date coverage available of theory and research on cognitive, learning, and thinking styles...

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Based on the authors’ own experiences of intervention in school settings and evidence of its effectiveness, this practical guide includes a number of vignettes and case studies illustrating how the behavioural approach has been used by teachers in a wide variety of classrooms to make their teaching ..

Based on the authors’ own experiences of intervention in school settings and evidence of its effectiveness, this practical guide includes a number of vignettes and case studies illustrating how the behavioural approach has been used by teachers in a wide variety of classrooms to make their teaching ..

Positive psychology – the scientific study of happiness – is a rapidly burgeoning field, and in no area more so than education. This book provides an in-depth look at this exciting area of applied positive psychology. It is based on a special issue of The Journal of Positive Psychology...

Critical theoretical methods have been foundational to Learning Sciences from the inception of the field. Power and Privilege in the Learning Sciences brings together contributions from scholars within and outside of education for a ground-breaking collection designed to bring the best of these fram..

The series from which this book is taken was written for teacher training students, as well as for in-service teachers wishing to improve their teaching skills. It is a practical guide that provides necessary subject background, supported by references to encourage and guide further reading...

Drawing upon extensive research, David Galloway and Anne Edwards analyse the increasing pressures on teachers from the national curriculum and other recent legislation. They look carefully at childrens' learning and behavioural difficulties and show how educational psychology can extend our understa..

Extends problem-based learning beyond medical education. Edited volume for both researchers and practitioners, it presents research dealing with two complex entities vital to a problem-based curriculum: group collaboration and self-directed learning...

Educational psychology has much to offer teachers and trainee teachers which can be of help to them in their work. In this book, originally published in 1983, leading experts look at a number of important topics in educational psychology...

Brings together the work of leading researchers in the field of child development and early education to examine current problems from the perspective of psychological theory and research...

Originally published in 1976, this introductory text for those intending to work with slow learners was concerned with the practical implications of recent British and North American research in the field of psychology and education at the time...