Seventh Edition. — Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011. — 588 p. Part One: Critical Thinking and Reading. Critical Thinking. Critical Reading: Getting Started. Critical Reading: Getting Deeper into Arguments. Visual Rhetoric: Images as Arguments. Part Two: Critical Writing. Writing an Analysis of an Argument. Developing an Argument of Your Own. Using Sources. Part Three: Further Views...
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011. — 547 p. This clear, learner-friendly text helps today’s students bridge the gap between everyday culture and critical thinking. It covers all the basics of critical thinking, using real-world examples and a proven step-by-step approach. Its comprehensiveness allows instructors to tailor the material to their individual teaching styles, resulting in...
Routledge, 2015 — 192 p. — ISBN10: 1138784982, ISBN13: 978-1138784987 Each year, many students with affordable college options and the academic skills needed to succeed do not enroll at all, enroll at institutions where they are not well-positioned for success, or drop out of college before earning a credential. Efforts to address these challenges have included changes in...
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 329 p. Drawing on cognitive psychology and other fields, Make It Stick offers techniques for becoming more productive learners, and cautions against study habits and practice routines that turn out to be counterproductive. The book speaks to students, teachers, trainers, athletes, and all those interested in lifelong learning and self-improvement.
11th Ed. — Pearson, 2014. — 186 p. — ISBN10: 0321907957. — ISBN13: 978-0321907950. Used in a variety of courses in various disciplines, Asking the Right Questions helps students bridge the gap between simply memorizing or blindly accepting information, and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. Specifically, this concise text teaches students to think...
Belknap Press, 1966. — 176 p. Jerome Seymour Bruner an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology. His theory is one of classic psychological learning theory. The theories presented are anchored in practice, in the empirical research from which they derive and in the practical...
Random House, 2015. — 272 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8129-9388-2. In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really know about learning and memory today — and how we can apply it to our own lives. From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness, distraction, and ignorance are the...
Random House, 2015. — 272 p. In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we know about learning and memory today — and how we can apply it to our own lives. From an early age, it is drilled into our heads that restlessness, distraction, and ignorance are the enemies of success. We’re told...
4th Ed. — ASCD, 2018. — 196 p. — ISBN10: 141662581X, 13 978-1416625810. In this revised and updated 4th edition, Discipline with Dignity provides in-depth guidance for implementing a proven approach to classroom management that can help students make better choices and teachers be more effective. Emphasizing the importance of mutual respect and self-control, the authors offer...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 750 p. — (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology). — ISBN: 978-1-108-41601-6. This Handbook reviews a wealth of research in cognitive and educational psychology that investigates how to enhance learning and instruction to aid students struggling to learn and to advise teachers on how best to support student learning. The Handbook includes features...
USA. Publisher: ASSOCIATION FOR SUPERVISION AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT. 1959. - 89 p. The book covers such issues as: Anthropology; *Child Development; *Curriculum Development; *Learning; *Learning Processes;*Learning Theories; Mass Media;Perception; Personality Theories.
ASCD, 2018. — 154 p. — ISBN10: 1416625941, 13 978-1416625940. Design Thinking for School Leaders explores the changing landscape of leadership and offers practical ways to reframe the role of school leader using Design Thinking, one step at a time. Leaders can shift from "accidental designers" to "design-inspired leaders," acting with greater intention and achieving greater...
Routledge, 2015. — 141 p. — (Foundations of Education Studies). — ISBN: 978-1-138-78348-5. There are a number of psychological themes which are key to really understanding education: for example, the internal processes of learners, the nature of learning in culture and the influences on teaching and learning. Written specifically for education studies students, Psychology and...
Routledge, 2013. — 352 p. The Routledge International Companion to Educational Psychology brings together expert practitioners, researchers, and teachers from five continents to produce a unique and global guide to the core topics in the field. Each chapter includes coverage of the key thinkers, topic areas, events, and ideas that have shaped the field, but also takes the...
Bookboon, 2015. — 131 p. — ISBN: 978-87-403-0927-0 This is a book written for two audiences - the international student who comes to the UK for degree studies and wants to get a good grade but also it is also aimed at tutors working with international students. We have used our extensive experience of teaching in universities in the UK, our experiences of working overseas and...
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego,2009. – 155 p. It is our hope that the book will inspire readers to ask questions and pursue new paths along old, well known topics concerning foreign language education. … an extremely valuable book; discussing issues that play a crucial role in contemporary foreign language pedagogy, in an interesting way presenting the voices of its...
Springer, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN: 0826194192. This unique text for undergraduate courses teaches students to apply critical thinking skills across all academic disciplines by examining popularpseudoscientific claims through a multidisciplinary lens. Rather than merely focusing on critical thinking, the text incorporates the perspectives ofpsychology, biology, physics, medicine,...
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2003. — 288 p. : ill. How many times have you heard a teacher say that your child has tremendous potential "if only he'd just apply himself" or "if only she'd work just a little harder"? How often have you said the same thing to your son or daughter? Or perhaps you have a coworker who can't seem to finish anything his reports are never in on...
N.Y.: Springer, 2009. — 242 p. — e-ISBN: 978-0-387-98125-3 During the last decade, argumentation has attracted growing attention as a means to elicit processes (linguistic, logical, dialogical, psychological, etc.) that can sustain or provoke reasoning and learning. Constituting an important dimension of daily life and of professional activities, argumentation plays a special...
Editorial Club Universitario, 2011. — 295 p. Es difícil saber qué clase de conocimiento será el más necesario en el futuro, por lo que no tiene sentido enseñarlo por adelantado. En lugar de eso, deberíamos tratar que las personas amen tanto el aprendizaje y aprendan tan bien que sean capaces de aprender cualquier cosa que necesite ser aprendida". John Holt. El contenido de esta...
Springer Publishing Company, 2010. — 497 p. — ISBN: 0826121624, 9780826121622. This book is solid in its topic coverage and delivery Readers will glean a multitude of new ideas from the theories and approaches presented in this book, ranging from cultural aspects of teaching to Sternberg's WICS model. This book serves as a comprehensive review of the current state-of-the-art in...
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006. — 251 p. The Skills of Document Use: From Text Comprehension to Web-Based Learning examines functional literacy from a psychological standpoint. It offers a comprehensive discussion of the cognitive skills involved in reading, comprehending, and making use of complex documents. Understanding such skills is important at times when printed and...
SAGE, 2008. — 1208 p. — ISBN: 1412916887, 9781412916882 The field of educational psychology draws from a variety of diverse disciplines including human development across the life span, measurement and statistics, learning and motivation, and teaching. And within these different disciplines, many other fields are featured including psychology, anthropology, education,...
Springer, 2015. — 208 p. — (Literacy Studies). — ISBN10: 331914734X, ISBN13: 978-3319147345. This volume focuses on our understanding of the reading comprehension of adolescents in a high stakes academic environment. Leading researchers share their most current research on each issue, covering theory and empirical research from a range of specializations, including various...
Georgetown University Press, 2011. - 229 p. The volume includes an examination of the psychological and neurological processes of implicit and explicit learning, what aspects of language learning can be affected by explicit learning, and the effects of bilingualism on the mental processing of language. Rigorous empirical research investigations probe specific aspects of...
The Global Text Project, 2009. — 376 p. The changing teaching profession and you The learning process Student development Student diversity Students with special educational needs Student motivation Classroom management and the learning environment The nature of classroom communication Facilitating complex thinking Planning instruction Teacher-made assessment strategies...
Routledge, 2018. — 285 p. — ISBN10: 1138059676, ISBN13: 978-1138059672. Written by experienced classroom practitioners who are experts in the field of psychology, Psychology in the Classroom provides a thorough grounding in the key principles of psychology and explores how they can be applied to teaching and learning. It draws on both classic and cutting-edge research, offering...
5th Ed. — Corwin, 2016. — 420 p. — ISBN10: 1506346308, ISBN13: 978-1506346304. Apply the newest brain research to enhance all students' learning Educational neuroscience consultant David A. Sousa continues his tradition of translating new findings into effective classroom strategies and activities in this updated version of his bestselling text. This fifth edition integrates...
2nd edition. — Corwin Press, 2011. — 305 p. All the newest information and insights are included. It’s a vital tool for school leaders, staff developers, teacher educators, and administration education faculty – as well as any educator who wants to help students learn. More sophisticated scanning techniques are able to track brain activity faster and more accurately than ever...
Greenglass Books, 2013. — 228 p. Here is a radical truth: school doesn't have a monopoly on learning. More and more people are passing on traditional education and college degrees. Instead they're getting the knowledge, training, and inspiration they need outside of the classroom. Drawing on extensive research and talking to over 100 independent learners, Kio Stark offers the...
AMACOM/American Management Association, 2009. — 272 p. We may not all be born comedians, but most people are naturally humorous, says Doni Tamblyn, comic-turned-trainer and president of HumorRules LLC. Tamblyn’s humorous techniques have brought serious results to clients such as Chevron, Wells Fargo, AstraZeneca, and other Fortune 500 companies, universities, and government...
St. Joseph Engineering College, 2015. — 62 p. — ISBN: 978-87-403-0830-3. — 2 edition This book-let for teachers is the outcome of lectures delivered by the author to the teaching faculty of St. Joseph Engineering College, Vamanjoor, Mangalore, and, various other colleges. These lectures were directed towards both the new lecturers and the experienced ones. First, greatness of...
San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2009. — 192 p. — ISBN: 978-0-470-27930. Research-based insights and practical advice about effective learning strategies. In this new edition of the highly regarded, Why Don't Students Like School? cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham turns his research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning into workable teaching techniques. This...
15th edition. — Pearson Education, 2023. — 881 p. — ISBN: 9780136944904. Educational Psychology uses clear, jargon-free language to explain how you can use educational psychology research in your classroom. Theory and practice are considered together, showing how research on child development, cognitive science, learning, motivation, teaching and assessment can be used to solve...
15th edition. — Pearson Education, 2024. — 889 p. — ISBN: 978-0-13-812432-8. Educational Psychology: Active Learning Edition uses 44 easy-to-read modules to explain how you can use educational psychology research in your classroom. Theory and practice are considered together, showing how research on child development, cognitive science, learning, motivation, teaching, and...
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