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The Impact of Technology on Relationships in Educational Settings

The Impact of Technology on Relationships in Educational Settings
  • Edited by Angela Costabile, and Barbara Spears.

Published February 2012

As the linguistic, cognitive and social elements of our lives are transformed by new and emerging technologies, educational settings are also challenged to respond to the issues that have arisen as a consequence. This book focuses on that challenge: using psychological theory as a lens to highlight…
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Children in Difficulty

A guide to understanding and helping

Children in Difficulty
  • By Julian Elliott, and Maurice Place.

Published December 2011

Written by two leading experts in the field, this welcome third edition of Children in Difficulty: A guide to understanding and helping discusses some of the most common, yet incapacitating, difficulties that are frequently encountered by young children and adolescents. This includes such topics as…
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Emerging Topics on Father Attachment

Considerations in Theory, Context and Development

  • Edited by Lisa A. Newland, Harry S. Freeman and Diana D. Coyl.

Published November 2011

This book is the first of its kind to focus specifically on children’s attachment to fathers, and explores the connections among fathering, family dynamics, and attachment relationships. It includes theoretical, methodological and research reports written by an interdisciplinary group of…
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Making Sense (Routledge Revivals)

The Child's Construction of the World

Making Sense (Routledge Revivals)
  • Edited by Jerome S. Bruner, and Helen Haste.

Published August 2011

The growing child comes to understand the world, makes sense of experience and becomes a competent social individual. First published in 1978, Making Sense reflected the way in which developmental psychologists had begun to look at these processes in increasingly naturalistic, social situations.…
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Theories of Learning for the Workplace

Building blocks for training and professional development programs

Theories of Learning for the Workplace
  • By Filip Dochy, David Gijbels, Mien Segers and Piet Van den Bossche.

Published June 2011

Workplace and professional learning, lifelong learning, adult learning, learning in different contexts have become of more and more interest and now dominate all aspects of 21st century life. Learning is no longer about ‘storing and recall’ but ‘development and flow’. Theories of Learning in the…
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Young People, Border Spaces and Revolutionary Imaginations

  • Edited by Stuart Aitken, Fernando Bosco, Thomas Herman and Kate Swanson.

Published May 2011

Drawing from discussions that pulled together child researchers working near the borders of Mexico, the United States and Canada, this book explores how material and metaphoric borders give way to young people's experimentations with cultural, social and political change. The contributors…
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Early Development and Leadership

Building the Next Generation of Leaders

Early Development and Leadership
  • Edited by Susan E. Murphy, and Rebecca Reichard.

Published April 2011

Today we often look to our leaders in business, government, or the social sector, to make effective decisions in a complex world. Whether they are asked what steps to take to improve competitiveness in a global economy or to make tough ethical choices, well-trained leaders are critical to…
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A Teaching Assistant's Guide to Child Development and Psychology in the Classroom

Second edition

A Teaching Assistant's Guide to Child Development and Psychology in the Classroom
  • By Susan Bentham.

Published March 2011

How can you help students most effectively in the classroom? As a Teaching Assistant, you play a vital role in today’s schools. This fully updated new edition will help you get to grips with the main issues to do with psychology and its role in the processes of teaching and learning. This…
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Handbook of Self-Regulation of Learning and Performance

Handbook of Self-Regulation of Learning and Performance
  • Edited by Barry J. Zimmerman, and Dale H. Schunk.

Published March 2011

Self-regulated learning (or self-regulation) refers to the process whereby learners personally activate and sustain cognitions, affects, and behaviours that are systematically oriented toward the attainment of learning goals. This is the first volume to integrate into a single volume all aspects of…
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Children’s Food Practices in Families and Institutions

  • Edited by Punch, Ian McIntosh and Ruth Emond.

Published February 2011

This book brings together recent UK studies into children’s experiences and practices around food in a range of contexts, linking these to current policy and practice perspectives. It reveals that food works not only on a material level as sustenance but also on a symbolic level as something that…
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