Bücher der Reihe Educational Psychology

Becoming an Integrated Educational Leader is a must-read for current K-12 educators, preparing and current teachers who want to be leaders in their schools and communities. This book provides insights into gaining a better understanding of our educational system and describes a better understanding of the physical and emotional blockades experienced by educators and how to be a complete leader.

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.

Beyond Actions is a new breed of book on action research, going beyond procedural descriptions of action research and discusses psychological processes and epistemological challenges involved in planning and conducting action research. The book discusses in depth key concepts of action research and their contribution to the improvement of educational practice.

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.

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.

The book gives comprehensive approaches to teacher preparation and discusses the nature of teaching inquiry elementary health and science concepts in a way that equips prospective educators with a broad array of practical tools to prepare them for unexpected challenges related to the conduct of science instruction, management, discipline, assessment, transition, and daily routine and structure.

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.

This book presents comprehensive approaches to teacher preparation and discusses the nature of classroom management in a way that equips prospective educators with a broad array of practical tools to prepare them for unexpected challenges in instruction, management, discipline, assessment, transition, and daily routine and structure.

Classroom Discourse and Democracy

Based on both theory and personal teaching experiences, Teachers and Students as Co-Learners: Toward a Mutual Value Theory will help readers develop a deeper understanding of learning, re-ignite their enthusiasm, and, most importantly, create powerful teaching and learning in the classroom.

Educational Psychology Reader

How do young children learn to read, write, speak, and listen in two languages? How do emergent readers and writers make meaning within multilingual communities? This book examines the emergent biliteracy development of two kindergarteners growing up in a New Mexican neighborhood.

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.

Illustrates the problems and opportunities the American nation faces in education, economics, and the global arena. In this book, the authors propose a framework of transformation that would render American culture no longer a culture of conflict, but one whose purpose is to achieve metacultural cohesion.

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.

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.

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.

The goal of Best Practices in STEM Education: Innovative Approaches from Einstein Fellow Alumni, Second Edition is to improve the state of STEM education, not only in the United States, but internationally as well: good education anywhere is good for education everywhere.

The second edition of Vygotsky and Creativity: A Cultural-historical Approach to Play, Meaning Making, and the Arts presents an enriched Vygotskian perspective on children's and adults' symbolic engagement with imagination, artistic expression, and multi-modal forms of expression.

Effective Education for All deals with cultural-linguistic diversity and how to work in classrooms with culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students. This book is both practical and helpful for educators and their schools in offering Positive Behavior Support (PBS), illustrating key steps in understanding the problem and research on cultural-linguistic diversity.

Effective Education for All deals with cultural-linguistic diversity and how to work in classrooms with culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students. This book is both practical and helpful for educators and their schools in offering Positive Behavior Support (PBS), illustrating key steps in understanding the problem and research on cultural-linguistic diversity.

African American Students in Urban Schools

African American Students in Urban Schools

Traces the experiences of one cohort of Teach For America (TFA) corps members as they reconcile their hopes for their students with the reality of teaching in a district that favors compliance over compassion.

Encouraging Metacognition

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.

Revolutionary STEM Education: Critical-Reality Pedagogy and Social Justice in STEM for Black Males by Jeremiah J. Sims, an educator, researcher, and administrator from Richmond, California, is calling for a revolutionary, paradigm shift in the STEM education of and for Black boys.

This book proposes a framework for critically examining dominant and taken-for-granted ideas in educational psychology, then applies that framework to the examination of Self-regulated learning (SRL) to show how it endorses middle-class conventions, aligns with neoliberal logic, and renders individuals subordinate to oppressive educational structures.