Educational psychology Books

Book SynopsisThis series was initiated as an extension of, and support for, the International Ha- book of Self-study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices (Loughran,Ham- ton, LaBoskey, & Russell, 2004). As such, the books that comprise the series are designed to offer new and engaging ways of examining issues (both theoretical and practical), associated with self-study research. Throughthis text,the editorshave takena boldstand in holdingupto scrutinythe work of a number of scholars in ways that shed new light on the methods, practices and outcomes of their self-study endeavours. They have assembled an outstanding array of authors that demonstrates well the way in which the self-study com- nity functions as a collaborative and supportive enterprise in the work of teacher education. Deborah Tidwell, Melissa Heston and Linda Fitzgerald are an experienced and talented team of editors who have accepted responsibility for a numberof the recent Castle proceedings (Fitzgerald, Heston, & Tidwell, 2006; Heston, Tidwell, East, & Fitzgerald, 2008; Tidwell, Fitzgerald, & Heston, 2004, the bi-ennial conference of AERA's S-STEP SIG). Through that work they have been fortunate to be fully immersed in the most up to date and in uential research conducted by members of the self-study community. As a consequence of that involvement and leadership they have been exceptionally well placed to be familiar with, and therefore attract, authorsthat have a great deal to offer by sharing their work through this exceptional text.Table of ContentsSeries editor's foreword. Introduction; Deborah L. Tidwell, Melissa L. Heston, Linda M. Fitzgerald. Section 1: Self-Study through the Use of Text. 1. Co/autoethnography: Exploring Our Teaching Selves Collaboratively; Lesley Coia, Monica Taylor. 2. Teaching and Learning through Narrative Inquiry; Rosa T. Chiu-Ching, Esther Yim-mei Chan. 3. Passages: Improving Teaching Education through Narrative Self-Study; Julian Kitchen. Section 2: Self-Study through Discourse and Dialogue. 4. Taling Teaching and Learning: Using Dialogue in Self-Study; Katheryn East,,Linda M. Fitzgerald,,Melissa L. Heston. 5. 'Name It and Claim It': The Methodology of Self-Study as Social Justice Teacher Education; Vicki Kubler LaBoskey. 6. Many Mile and Many Emails: Using Electronic Technologies in Self-Study to Think about, Refine and Reframe Practice; Amanda Berry, Alicia R. Crowe. Section 3: Self-Study through Visual Representation. 7. Faces and Spaces and Doing Research; Morwenna Griffiths, Heather Malcolm, Zoè Williamson. 8. Facing the Public: Using Photography for Self-Study and Social Action; Claudia Mitchell, Sandra Weber, Kathleen Pithouse. 9. Making Meaning of Practice through Visual Metaphor; Deborah L. Tidwell, Mary P. Manke. 10. Creating Representations: Using Collage in Self-Study; Mary Lynn Hamilton, Stefinee Pinnegar. Section 4: Self-Study on the Impact of Practice on Students. 11. How Do I Influence the Generation of Living Educational Theories for Personal and Social Accountability in Improving Practice? Using a Living Theory Methodology in Improving Educational Practice; Jack Whitehead. 12. Assumption Interrogation: An Insight into a Self-Study Researcher’s PedagogicalFrame; Robyn Brandenburg. 13. Teacher Education for Literacy Teaching: Research at the Personal, Institutional, and Collective Levels; Clare Kosnik, Clive Beck.

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Book SynopsisThis book sets out the necessary processes and challenges involved in modeling student thinking, understanding and learning. The chapters look at the centrality of models for knowledge claims in science education and explore the modeling of mental processes, knowledge, cognitive development and conceptual learning. The conclusion outlines significant implications for science teachers and those researching in this field.This highly useful work provides models of scientific thinking from different field and analyses the processes by which we can arrive at claims about the minds of others. The author highlights the logical impossibility of ever knowing for sure what someone else knows, understands or thinks, and makes the case that researchers in science education need to be much more explicit about the extent to which research onto learners’ ideas in science is necessarily a process of developing models.Through this book we learn that research reports should acknowledge the role of modeling and avoid making claims that are much less tentative than is justified as this can lead to misleading and sometimes contrary findings in the literature. In everyday life we commonly take it for granted that finding out what another knows or thinks is a relatively trivial or straightforward process. We come to take the ‘mental register’ (the way we talk about the ‘contents’ of minds) for granted and so teachers and researchers may readily underestimate the challenges involved in their work.Table of ContentsModelling learners and learning in science education.- Modelling mental processes in the science learner.- Modelling the science learner’s knowledge.- Development and learning.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisPsychological Science.-  Policy and Design.- Implementation Challenges.- Human Cognitive process for behaviour change.- Psychology and Law and Law.- Developmental Lifespan.- MGNREGA and the Rights discourse.- Conclusions.

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Book Synopsis1. The development of interests in the transitional age.- 2. Development of thinking and concept formation in the adolescent.- 3. Development of higher psychological functions in the transitional age.- 4. Imagination and creativity in the adolescent.- 5. Choice of profession.- 6. Social behaviour in the adolescent.- 7. The working adolescent.- 8. The structure and dynamics of the adolescent personality.

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