Education and psychology: Recent e-books
This is a guide for those interested in the application of psychology to education, both research and practice, including cognition, learning science, motivation, and behavior modification.
Recent e-books
Building mental resilience in children: positive psychology, emotional intelligence, and play by Louiza Ioannidou (Ed.); Agathi Argyriadi (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2024Mental resilience in children is an essential aspect of childhood well-being and long-term success. Positive psychology, emotional intelligence, and play are critical when nurturing this resilience and building mental strength. Emotional intelligence may help children recognize and manage their emotions effectively, while preparing them to overcome personal challenges.Affective learning for contemporary education: exploring the limits of psychology for educational purposes by Tom Feldges
Publication Date: 2025Assuming that affective states form an important part of how humans relate to their environment, this book posits that the currently dominant cognitive approach to the field of psychology is unable to account sufficiently for this experiential reality of human life. Providing a philosophical investigation of this disparity, chapters offer an in-depth discussion of affective states for transformative learning, chart the journey of Psychology as an independent academic discipline, and engage classical learning theories in order to offer a broader understanding of complex, field-specific arguments, and engage readers from multidisciplinary backgrounds.Brothers in grief: the hidden toll of gun violence on Black boys and their schools by Nora Gross
Publication Date: 2024Brothers in Grief closely attends to the neglected victims of youth gun violence: the suffering friends and classmates who must cope, mostly out of public view, with lasting grief and hidden anguish. Sociologist Nora Gross tells the story of students attempting to grapple with unthinkable loss, inviting readers in to observe how they move through their days at school and on social media in the aftermath of their friends' and classmates' deaths. Gross highlights the discrepancy between their school's educational mission and teachers' and administrators' fraught attempts to care for students' emotional wellbeing.Factors impacting student well-being and coping tactics by Peter Jo Aloka (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2024Factors Impacting Student Well-Being and Coping Tactics presents a comprehensive analysis of the factors influencing mental, emotional, and social health in higher education settings. This book explores the intrinsic and extrinsic elements shaping student well-being through meticulously curated chapters, from risk factors to protective mechanisms. By offering evidence-based strategies and practical recommendations, the book empowers academics, administrators, and counselors to proactively address students' challenges and foster a supportive environment conducive to personal and scholarly growth.- Neurodevelopment in the post-pandemic world: the altered trajectory of children's education, mental health, and brain development by Molly Colvin; Jennifer Linton Reesman; Tannahill GlenPublication Date: 2024The COVID-19 pandemic caused worldwide and sustained educational and psychosocial disruption for children and adolescents. Schools, when they were able to remain open, quickly shifted to adopt untested virtual instruction methods that varied widely in implementation. Youth were exposed to increased stress at home, including adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and mental health conditions increased. Young children who needed support for developmental and learning delays, as well as disabilities, missed critical interventions and/or entered school later. Older adolescents were lost entirely from the educational system.
Observing and recording the behavior of young children by Dorothy H. Cohen; Virginia Stern; Nancy Balaban
Publication Date: 2024Now available in an updated seventh edition, this popular resource is designed to deepen pre- and inservice teachers' understanding of children (birth-age 8) as unique individuals within a developmental context. Observation notes recorded over time reveal patterns in children's behavior, as well as ways in which behaviors may change.Suicide in schools: a practitioner's guide to multi-level prevention, assessment, intervention, and postvention by Terri A. Erbacher; Jonathan B. Singer; Scott Poland
Publication Date: 2024The Suicide in Schools Model provides readers with clear, step-by-step guidelines on how to work proactively with school personnel and community professionals, how to screen, assess, and monitor suicide risk, create collaborative safety plans, and plan for reentry after a suicidal crisis. The authors expand this new edition with detailed case examples and innovative approaches such as upstream prevention strategies, usable handouts, and internet resources to effectively work with youth facing a suicidal crisis as well as students, families, and school staff who have suffered a suicide loss.The essential Howard Gardner on education by Howard Gardner
Publication Date: 2024During his long and distinguished career as scholar and teacher, Howard Gardner has made vast contributions to our understanding of learning and how to create environments that support growth in all learners across their lifespans. In this compelling collection of his writings, Gardner lays out his principal ideas about education.Integrating mindfulness into anti-oppression pedagogy: social justice in higher education by Beth Berila
Publication Date: 2024Drawing from mindfulness education and social justice teaching, this book explores an effective anti-oppressive pedagogy for university and college classrooms.A light in the tower: a new reckoning with mental health in higher education by Katie Rose Guest Pryal
Publication Date: 2024Written from the perspective of a bipolar-autistic professor, A Light in the Tower is both a bracing account of the mental health crisis in higher education and a passionate and informed proposal for how to teach with mental health in mind. Pryal contends that higher education's mental health crisis is the result of long-term systemic problems in education that demand nothing short of a revolution.
2023
Advocating for mental health supports in schools: a step-by-step guide by Katherine A. Dockweiler
Publication Date: 2023Helps readers to see themselves as advocates who can successfully advocate for, and achieve, more mental health supports in schools.COMPASS and innovative education for students with autism by Lisa A. Ruble (Ed.); John H. McGrew (Ed,)
Publication Date: 2023This book examines the five primary areas of the Collaborative Model for Promoting Competence and Success (COMPASS). It describes COMPASS as an evidence-based practice in psychology (EBPP) versus an evidence-based practice (EBP) and discusses how it informs innovative individualized education program (IEP) goal setting., planning, and implementation through teacher coaching.Facing campus sexual assault and relationship violence with courage: a guide for institutions and clinicians on prevention, support, and healing by Helen W. Wilson; Christina T. Khan
Publication Date: 2023Leveraging knowledge from psychiatry, college mental health, and higher education, Facing Campus Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence With Courage offers a holistic approach to preventing, addressing, and mitigating the effects of campus sexual and relationship violence. This guide combines the latest science with real-world knowledge and practical application.Powerful student care: honoring each learner as distinctive and irreplaceable by Grant A. Chandler; Kathleen M. Budge
Publication Date: 2023If we want to really understand our students so that we can optimize instruction for them, we must think of each individual student as distinctive and irreplaceable. From this core principle springs the radically humane framework for meaningful teaching that is the subject of this book: Powerful Student Care (PSC).Quality instruction and intervention: strategies for secondary educators by Brittany L. Hott (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2023Quality Instruction and Intervention Strategies for Secondary Educators offers a summary of evidence-based instruction followed by the most up-to-date empirically validated interventions for students with and at risk for disabilities in grades 6-12. Featuring key questions, case studies, essential vocabulary, and tools that can be used in the classroom, this practical text is ideal for pre- and in-service teachers.Suicide and self-injury in schools: interventions for school mental health specialists by Darcy Haag Granello; Paul F. Granello; Gerald A. Juhnke
Publication Date: 2023Suicide and Self Injury in Schools: Interventions for School Mental Health Specialists can be a vital tool for making suicide prevention a shared responsibility. Throughout the book, each time authors Darcy Haag Granello, Paul Granello, and Gerald Juhnke present a new concept, risk category, or application idea, it is immediately followed by a concrete, practical strategy. There are more than 120 of these research-backed strategies, all of which have been tested in practice.Teaching to prepare advocates by edited by Mike Yough, Lynley H. Anderman
Publication Date: 2023This book is the fourth volume in the six-part series Theory to Practice: Educational Psychology for Teachers and Teaching. This volume is a strong compliment to others in the series as it prepares readers to be better positioned to advocate for principles of psychology in their programs and departments, and to prepare preservice teachers to do likewise in the K-12 classrooms they will soon guide.The therapeutic inclusion program: establishment and maintenance in public schoolsThe Therapeutic Inclusion Program by Michael A. Murray; Laura Balogh
Publication Date: 2023The Therapeutic Inclusion Program opens with information about therapeutic classrooms and continues with explanations of how the programs function within the larger public school community. As the book travels through the therapeutic program, it discusses staff roles and qualifications, staff-to-student ratios, and the role of administration.Toward responsive, humanizing classrooms by Elizabeth Dutro; Bre Pacheco
Publication Date: 2023Editors Elizabeth Dutro and Bre Pacheco have edited this collection of original essays with the belief that trauma-informed teaching, with all of the complex layers that term contains, can and must be harnessed to propel movements toward equity and justice in English language arts classrooms.Trauma-informed practices for early childhood educators: relationship-based approaches that reduce stress, build resilience and support healing in young children by Julie Nicholson; Linda Perez; Julie Kurtz; Shawn Bryant; Drew Giles
Publication Date: 2023This second edition of Trauma-Informed Practices for Early Childhood Educators continues to guide childcare providers and early educators working with infants, toddlers, preschoolers and early elementary-aged children to understand trauma as well as its impact on young children's brains, behavior, learning and development. The book covers a range of trauma-responsive teaching strategies that readers can use to create strength-based environments that support children's health, healing and resiliency.Trauma-sensitive literacy instruction: building student resilience in English-language arts classrooms by Rachelle S. Savitz; Britnie Delinger Kane; Elizabeth Dutro (Foreword)
Publication Date: 2023This book highlights how English Language Arts teachers, who are typically not licensed or specifically trained to work with trauma issues, can design and implement instruction that helps students see that they are supported. Readers will find specific strategies for teaching literacy based on the authors' extensive knowledge and experience in trauma-sensitive instruction, adolescent literacy, and culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogies.Trauma responsive educational practices: helping students cope and learn by Micere Keels
Publication Date: 2023In Trauma Responsive Educational Practices, Micere Keels examines the neurobiology of trauma; presents mindfulness strategies that strengthen student self-regulation and extend professional longevity; and demonstrates how to build pedagogically caring relationships, psychologically safe discipline, and an emotionally safe classroom learning climate. Keels also shows educators how to attend to equity and use trauma as a critical lens through which to plan instruction and respond to challenging situations with coregulation.Weaving wellbeing into the literacy curriculum for ages 5-7: a practical resource for busy teachers by Alison Waterhouse; Melanie Smith
Publication Date: 2023Provides a series of cohesive lesson plans that focus on developing literacy skills with an underlying wellbeing theme.
2022
Developing trauma informed teachers: creating classrooms that foster equity, resiliency, and asset-based approaches : reflections on curricula and program implementation by edited by Philip E. Bernhardt, Ofelia Castro Schepers, Megan Brennan
Publication Date: 2022This text addresses the gap in the literature in embedding trauma-informed practices into pre-service teacher education. This text provides examples of the various ways educator preparation faculty are developing and implementing trauma-informed practices across their programs, instituting broader curricular shifts to incorporate trauma-informed practices, shifting pedagogical practices to include trauma-informed practices and collaborating across disciplines in order to ensure that teacher candidates are thoughtfully prepared to address students' needs and create classroom environments that are equitable, safe and sustainable for students and teachers.Piaget and Vygotsky in XXI century: discourse in early childhood education by Nikolay Veraksa (Ed.); Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2022The book provides a comprehensive analyses of Vygotsky's and Piaget's theories implementation in modern preschool education. It analyzes the problem of the relationship between the natural and the cultural in the context of Vygotsky and Jean Piaget theories.Trauma-informed pedagogies: a guide for responding to crisis and inequality in higher education by Phyllis Thompson (Ed.); Janice Carello (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2022This book centers equity in the approach to trauma-informed practice and provides the first evidence-based guide to trauma-informed teaching and learning in higher education.Trauma-informed pedagogy: addressing gender-based violence in the classroom by Jocelyn E. Marshall (Ed.); Candace Skibba (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2022Building decentered and empowering spaces is vital to addressing gender-based violence. In an educational setting, this must take into consideration instructors', students', and other professionals' own histories of and relationships to traumatic experience. The authors provide a cross-disciplinary dialogue involving spaces ranging from first-year writing programs to international classrooms to public art installation. What holds the conversation together is a collective emphasis on transnational feminist pedagogy and pedagogy of the oppressed while also prioritizing affective discourse.Trauma-informed teaching and IEPs: strategies for building student resilience by Melissa Sadin
Publication Date: 2022This is a whole school problem that requires a whole school solution. All educators in both general and special education should learn how trauma affects the brain and how any resulting atypical neurological and psychological development affects learning and behavior. In Trauma-Informed Teaching and IEPs, trauma expert Melissa Sadin presents strategies for supporting the most vulnerable students in general or special education settings, across grade levels, and across the curriculum.Trauma-responsive schooling: centering student voice and healing by Lyn Mikel Brown; Catharine Biddle; Mark Tappan
Publication Date: 2022The book chronicles the use of an innovative educational model, Trauma-Responsive Equitable Education (TREE), as part of a multiyear research project in two elementary schools in rural Maine. In this model, Lyn Mikel Brown, Catharine Biddle, and Mark Tappan endorse whole-school change, encouraging educators to upend traditional classroom power dynamics by listening foremost to student voices, validating student experiences, and promoting student agency.Trauma-sensitive school leadership: building a learning environment to support healing and successTrauma-Sensitive School Leadership by Bill Ziegler; Dave Ramage; Andrea Parson; Justin Foster
Publication Date: 2022In Trauma-Sensitive School Leadership, Bill Ziegler, Dave Ramage, Andrea Parson, and Justin Foster provide a framework to guide administrators and their teams through the process. With reference to research and their own experience as teachers, counselors, and school leaders, the authors explain how to Develop empathetic and supportive relationships among students and staff. Identify biases and barriers that hinder educators' ability to support learners affected by trauma. Design all-school events and daily lesson plans to minimize the likelihood of retraumatizing vulnerable students. Retool discipline practices and physical spaces to foster a more trauma-sensitive culture and climate. Establish supports to help teachers and other staff deal with secondary trauma. Accepting students for who they are and responding compassionately to their needs leads to greater success in academics and life.Un-silencing youth trauma: transformative school-based strategies for students exposed to violence and adversity by Garo, Laurie A.
Publication Date: 2022Although there are guidelines for trauma-sensitive approaches, few are culturally responsive. And it is now critical that educators consider the traumatic impacts of a dual pandemic (covid-19 and racism) on children and their education. This timely book thus serves to inform and inspire transformative healing and empowerment among traumatized children and youth in pandemic/post-pandemic school and after-school settings.
2021
Child and adolescent suicidal behavior: school-based prevention, assessment, and intervention by David N. Miller; William M. Reynolds (Foreword)
Publication Date: 2021This comprehensive resource--now revised and expanded--provides school practitioners with an evidence-based framework for preventing and effectively responding to youth suicidal behavior. David N. Miller guides readers to understand, screen, and assess for suicide risk in students in grades K-12. He presents collaborative strategies for intervening appropriately within a multi-tiered system of support.Compassionate school practices: fostering children's mental health and well-being by Christine Y. Mason; Dana Asby; Meghan Wenzel; Katherine T. Volk; Martha Staeheli
Publication Date: 2021Establish a compassionate cultural foundation for strong relationships and holistic skills to weather stress, trauma, and promote well-being for your entire school population by leaning into this approach to leadership and social emotional learning.Owning up: empowering adolescents to create cultures of dignity and confront social cruelty and injustice by Rosalind Wiseman
Publication Date: 2021Owning Up provides the tools to own up and take responsibility for unethical behavior and to treat yourself and others with dignity. This bigger, comprehensive edition features: three flexible, dynamic curricula separated by grade; a new chapter on successfully implementing a social and emotional learning program in every school; more games, role-playing activities, and provocative discussion questions to use in co-ed or single-sex groups; even more lessons and resources, updated to address social media, bystanding, and how young people can develop strong, healthy relationships with adults.The science of learning and development: enhancing the lives of all young people by Pamela Cantor; David Osher
Publication Date: 2021"This essential text unpacks major transformations in the study of learning and human development and provides evidence for how science can inform innovation in the design of settings, policies, practice, and research to enhance the life path, opportunity and prosperity of every child. The ideas presented provide researchers and educators with a rationale for focusing on the specific pathways and developmental patterns that may lead a specific child, with a specific family, school, and community, to prosper in school and in life."Strategies and methods for implementing trauma-informed pedagogy by Carianne Bernadowski (Ed.); Keshona Carianne Beasley (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2021Strategies and Methods for Implementing Trauma-Informed Pedagogy is a critical reference book that helps teachers and administrators identify manifestations of trauma in children and explain the characteristics and classroom interventions and resources that can aid educators in supporting students who have experienced trauma. This text explains the effects of trauma and the ways in which it manifests in children, explores resources and community options to support children who have experienced trauma, presents strategies to help students who have experienced trauma to learn in the classroom, and teaches the management of behaviors in positive ways to cultivate a community of learners.The sustainability mindset principles: a guide to develop a mindset for a better world by Isabel Rimanoczy
Publication Date: 2021This book introduces 12 principles for a sustainability mindset, presenting educators with a framework that makes it easy to include them into teaching plans and lessons of any discipline.Tackling anxiety in schools: lessons for children aged 3-13 by Chris Calland; Nicky Hutchinson
Publication Date: 2021"Anxiety is the biggest mental health problem in children, and research tells us it's on the rise. Modern life creates many challenges and pressures for them and the Covid-19 pandemic has only added to this growing problem. Tackling Anxiety in Schools supports all children to get into good habits of recognising their feelings of anxiety, and equips them with a repertoire of coping strategies they can use in their day to day lives."The trauma-sensitive school: transforming education to heal social and emotional wounds by Gerald W. Neal
Publication Date: 2021This call to action for educators examines how childhood trauma impacts cognitive, emotional and social development, and offers perspectives and strategies for fostering trauma-sensitive school cultures. Strong evidence indicates the central problems that underlie many behavioral and emotional obstacles to learning are rarely identified by educators. When these issues are properly understood and addressed, teachers, administrators and parents can more effectively serve students' emotional and social needs, resulting in dramatic improvement in academic outcomes, attendance, teacher retention and parental involvement.
2020
Advances in deep learning by M. Arif Wani; Farooq Ahmad Bhat; Saduf Afzal; Asif Iqbal Khan
Publication Date: 2020This book introduces readers to both basic and advanced concepts in deep network models. It covers state-of-the-art deep architectures that many researchers are currently using to overcome the limitations of the traditional artificial neural networks. Various deep architecture models and their components are discussed in detail, and subsequently illustrated by algorithms and selected applications.Being well in academia: ways to feel stronger, safer and more connected by Petra M. Boynton
Publication Date: 2020The 'Insider Guides to Success in Academia' offers support and practical advice to doctoral students and early-career researchers. Covering the topics that really matter, but which often get overlooked, this indispensable series provides practical and realistic guidance to address many of the needs and challenges of trying to operate, and remain, in academia.Belonging: a relationship-based approach for trauma-informed education by Sian Phillips; Deni Melim
Publication Date: 2020This book focuses on three important and comprehensive areas of theory and research that provide a theoretical, clinical, and integrated intervention model for developing the relationships and felt sense of safety children with developmental trauma need. Using what is known from attachment theory, intersubjectivity theory, and interpersonal neurobiology, the reader is helped to understand why children behave in the challenging ways they do.Developing growth mindsets: principles and practices for maximizing students' potential by Donna Wilson; Marcus Conyers
Publication Date: 2020Human beings have tremendous potential to acquire new knowledge, develop new skills, and improve their brains throughout life. By explicitly teaching learners about brain plasticity and malleable intelligence (the idea that they can become functionally smarter through effort) and by modeling and teaching specific learning strategies, teachers can help students experience higher levels of success as they develop a growth mindset.Early childhood education and the student empowerment program by Mario C. Barbiere and Jane C. Wiatr
Publication Date: 2020This book spotlights The Student Empowerment Program(c) and is the foundation for a positive climate and culture in the early childhood classroom. The program is detailed chapter by chapter and addresses the nature of the learner from play and exploration to technology, to rubrics and assessments.Educational neuroscience: development across the life span by Michael S. C. Thomas (Ed.); Denis Mareschal (Ed.); Iroise Dumontheil (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2020The field of educational neuroscience uses new insights about the neural mechanisms of learning to improve educational practices and outcomes. The first volume to bring together the latest knowledge on the development of educational neuroscience from a life-span perspective, this important text offers state of the art, authoritative research findings in educational neuroscience before providing evidence-based recommendations for classroom practice.Five Big Ideas for Effective Teaching by Donna Wilson; Marcus Conyers; Robert Calfee (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 2020This is the second edition of the seminal text designed to empower educators with an innovative and inspiring conceptual framework for effective teaching. This bestseller is grounded in the synergy of five big ideas for connecting mind, brain, and education research to classroom practice: neuroplasticity, potential, malleable intelligence, the Body-Brain System, and metacognition.Improving school climate: practical strategies to reduce behavior problems and promote social and emotional learning by George G. Bear
Publication Date: 2020Improving School Climate provides evidence-based and practical strategies for cultivating a healthy school environment, while also avoiding behavior problems.Innovations and technologies for soft skill development and learning by Suresh Kumar Nagarajan (Ed.); Mohanasundaram R. (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2020Traditional education revolves around the teaching of technical skills, especially within STEM fields. Innovations and Technologies for Soft Skill Development and Learning explores the mental and psychological growth of individual learners at different stages of education concerning soft skills and the need for innovation and creativity to lead a successful career, highlighting topics including higher education, emotional intelligence, and student behavior.Revealing creativity: exploration in transnational education cultures by Carol A. Mullen
Publication Date: 2020Revealing Creativity: Exploration in Transnational Education Cultures explores the recovery and fostering of creativity under educational constraint. This longitudinal global study of diverse education populations in China, Canada, and Australia offers application of the 4-C Creativity Model through experiential activities and exploratory interviews within classrooms and other learning spaces.Social emotional learning and the brain: strategies to help your students thrive by Marilee Sprenger
Publication Date: 2020Today's teachers face a daunting challenge: how to ensure a positive school experience for their students, many of whom carry the burden of adverse childhood experiences, such as abuse, poverty, divorce, abandonment, and numerous other serious social issues. Spurred by her personal experience and extensive exploration of brain-based learning, author Marilee Sprenger explains how brain science--what we know about how the brain works--can be applied to social-emotional learning.Supporting and Educating Traumatized Students by Eric Rossen (Ed.)
Publication Date: 2020The book provides a thorough background on current research in trauma and its impact on school functioning; administrative and policy considerations; and a broad set of practical and implementable strategies for adapting instruction, modifying the classroom environments, and building competency for students and staff. New chapters address topics such as post-traumatic growth, interpersonal violence, and trauma screening and assessment among others.Supporting children's well-being during early childhood transition to school by Sanja Tatalovic Vorkapic; Jennifer LoCasale-Crouch
Publication Date: 2020"This book examines evidence-based practices and approaches that fully support a child's well-being during transition periods in early childhood. It serves as a resource to rethink contemporary transition theoretical models, research studies, and applied practices"--Transforming a school community through restorative practices : emerging research and opportunities by Holli Vah Seliskar
Publication Date: 2020Transforming a School Community Through Restorative Practices: Emerging Research and Opportunities provides schools with the tools needed to successfully implement a restorative approach to effect change within a school, featuring a wide range of topics such as conflict resolution, school safety, and school community.
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