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Educational Psychology Series


About the Series

This series has several goals:

  • to present the most significant contemporary theory and research on psychology as it is applied to education at all levels – elementary; secondary, and tertiary;
  • to present this research in a way that is relevant and accessible to both psychologists and educators;
  • to explore new ideas in instruction and assessment that are grounded in theory and tested in classrooms;
  • to inform and influence educational policy through the establishment of a solid base of theory and research rather than through the fads and fashions that come and go with the times but that have no base in the psychology of instruction;
  • to achieve further integration in the perspectives of education and psychology, as well as to draw together various fields of psychology in order to capitalize on their potential contributions to educational outcomes;
  • to explore notions of school reform that are linked to our knowledge about students’ learning, thinking, and motivation; and
  • to disseminate ideas from around the world, including Europe, Asia, and Africa, as well as the Americas.

 

This series will publish monographs and edited books that advance these goals through new and innovative contributions to educational psychology. Edited books must have a sense of coherence, contain unifying introductory and concluding chapters, and be internally consistent in scope and level of writing.

Potential authors and volume editors are encouraged to take risks and to explore with the series editors nontraditional points of vie wand methodologies. Interdisciplinary contributions involving theory and methodology from diverse fields, such as computer science, philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, and neuroscience, are especially welcome, but all contributions must be readable and interesting to psychologists and educators of varying backgrounds. Authors and editors from all around the world are encouraged to submit proposals.

Examples of topics that would be of interest include, but are not limited to, creative techniques for instruction, nontraditional forms of assessment, student learning, student motivation, organizational structure and climate, teacher education, new conceptions of abilities and achievement, analyses of cognitive structures and representations in various disciplines, expertise in teaching and administration, use of technology in the schools, at-risk children, adult education, and styles of learning and thinking.

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Inquiry in Education, Volume II Overcoming Barriers to Successful Implementation

Inquiry in Education, Volume II: Overcoming Barriers to Successful Implementation

1st Edition

Edited By Bruce M. Shore, Mark W. Aulls, Marcia A. B. Delcourt
April 01, 2008

A companion to Inquiry in Education, Volume I: The Conceptual Foundations for Research as a Curricular Imperative. Volume I presents the arguments for the necessary inclusion of inquiry-driven learning and instructional experiences in any modern school curriculum. Volume II illustrates how ...

Teaching Undergraduates

Teaching Undergraduates

1st Edition

By Roger L. Dominowski
July 01, 2001

This practical guide is designed to help college teachers plan their undergraduate courses and deliver high-quality instruction. The book's theme is that teaching is a creative, decision-making, idea-testing enterprise whose purpose is to facilitate student learning in all of its facets. Its goal ...

Understanding and Teaching the Intuitive Mind Student and Teacher Learning

Understanding and Teaching the Intuitive Mind: Student and Teacher Learning

1st Edition

Edited By Bruce Torff, Robert J. Sternberg
May 17, 2016

The intuitive mind is a powerful force in the classroom and often an undetected one. Intuitive conceptions--knowledge or knowledge-structures that individuals acquire and use largely without conscious reflection or explicit instruction--sometimes work to facilitate learning in the classroom and ...

Education As the Cultivation of Intelligence

Education As the Cultivation of Intelligence

1st Edition

By Michael E. Martinez
May 08, 2015

Martinez defines intelligence from a cognitive perspective as a repertoire of those skills, strategies, and knowledge structures that are most instrumental in human effectiveness. He posits that in today's complex, fast-paced, technologically dense, and information-rich society, intelligence is the...

Remaking the Concept of Aptitude Extending the Legacy of Richard E. Snow

Remaking the Concept of Aptitude: Extending the Legacy of Richard E. Snow

1st Edition

By Lyn Corno, Lee J. Cronbach
May 08, 2015

The unique perspective of Richard E. Snow, in recent years one of the most distinguished educational psychologists, integrates psychology of individual differences, cognitive psychology, and motivational psychology. This capstone book pulls together the findings of his own 35 years of research on ...

Perspectives on Thinking, Learning, and Cognitive Styles

Perspectives on Thinking, Learning, and Cognitive Styles

1st Edition

Edited By Robert J. Sternberg, Li-fang Zhang
February 12, 2001

This volume presents the most comprehensive, balanced, and up-to-date coverage of theory and research on cognitive, thinking, and learning styles, in a way that: * represents diverse theoretical perspectives; * includes solid empirical evidence testing the validity of these perspectives; and * ...

Expanding Definitions of Giftedness The Case of Young Interpreters From Immigrant Communities

Expanding Definitions of Giftedness: The Case of Young Interpreters From Immigrant Communities

1st Edition

By Guadalupe Valdes
March 15, 2003

This book is about bilingual young people who have been selected by their families to carry out the hard work of interpreting and translating to mediate communication between themselves and the outside world--between minority and majority communities. It examines the experiences of these young ...

How Dogmatic Beliefs Harm Creativity and Higher-level Thinking

How Dogmatic Beliefs Harm Creativity and Higher-level Thinking

1st Edition

By Don Ambrose, Robert Sternberg
September 19, 2013

In a world plagued by enormous, complex problems requiring long-range vision and interdisciplinary insights, the need to attend to the influence of dogmatic thinking on the development of high ability and creative intelligence is pressing. This volume introduces the problem of dogmatism broadly, ...

Adult Learning and Development Perspectives From Educational Psychology

Adult Learning and Development: Perspectives From Educational Psychology

1st Edition

Edited By M. Cecil Smith, Thomas Pourchot
January 01, 1998

Adult education occurs whenever individuals engage in sustained, systematic learning in order to affect changes in their attitudes, knowledge, skills, or belief systems. Learning, instruction, and developmental processes are the primary foci of educational psychology research and theorizing, but ...

Learning and Awareness

Learning and Awareness

1st Edition

By Ference Marton, Shirley Booth
April 12, 1997

This book stems from more than 25 years of systematic research into the experience of learning undertaken by a research team trying to account for the obvious differences between more or less successful instances of learning in educational institutions. The book offers an answer in terms of the ...

Translating Theory and Research Into Educational Practice Developments in Content Domains, Large Scale Reform, and Intellectual Capacity

Translating Theory and Research Into Educational Practice: Developments in Content Domains, Large Scale Reform, and Intellectual Capacity

1st Edition

Edited By Mark A. Constas, Robert J. Sternberg
March 21, 2006

This book shows, in detail and with concrete examples, how educational theory and research can be translated into practice. Well-known researchers who have worked to establish productive, sustainable connections between the knowledge produced by the research community and the practices employed in ...

The Nature of Intellectual Styles

The Nature of Intellectual Styles

1st Edition

By Li-fang Zhang, Robert J. Sternberg
March 07, 2006

This book provides an up-to-date, panoramic picture of the field of intellectual styles through describing, analyzing, and integrating the major theoretical and research works on the topic. Readers will gain a broad understanding of the field--its nature, origins, historical development, theories, ...

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