Foreword -- Introduction. What ifs -- Worldview: sphere and worldview.-Part I: The general context of education -- 1. Education in a post-industrial world -- 2. Math education and culture: learning theories -- Part II: Epistemological questions on AM and EM -- 3. Foundational issues? Whitehead s Multiperspectivalness -- 4. Language and thought -- Part III: Ethnomathematics and education -- 5. M…
Introduction -- On the Path towards the Science of Creative Thinking -- Theoretical Aspects of Creativity -- The Defragmentation of Creativity: Future Directions with an Emphasis on Educational Applications -- A Review of Integrated Approaches to the Study of Creativity: A proposal for a Systems Framework for Creativity -- Creative processes: Art, Design and Science -- Distributing creativity: …
I. Introduction -- 1. Introduction to Methodological Advances in Research on Emotion and Education, Michalinos Zembylas and Paul A. Schutz -- II. Early Work and Reflections on Researching Emotions in Education -- 2. Interview with Megan Boler: From ‘Feminist Politics of Emotions’ to the ‘Affective Turn’, Megan Boler (with Michalinos Zembylas -- 3. The Emotional Dimension in Teachers’ …
This volume introduces the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to the general field of education and traces her theories of mental life as an emotional situation, through to problems of self/other relations in our own time. The case is made for Klein’s relevance and the difficulties her theories pose to the activities of learning and pedagogical relation. Klein’s vocabulary—the paranoid/schizo…
Drawing on the role of individuals, education and training providers and countries' social policy actions, and borrowing insights from psychology, sociology and economics, this book works towards an interdisciplinary theory of adult lifelong learning participation. It explores the fragmented evidence of why adults do or do not participate in adult lifelong learning activities and focuses on the…
Gordon shows how we can use assessment to support teaching and develop students' competencies. Between 2011 and 2013, Gordon chaired an interdisciplinary commission of scholars and thinkers, who connected transformative research and ideas on learning, teaching, measurement, the nature of tests, intelligence, capability, technology, and policy.
Introduction -- 1 Advancing psychological studies on Asian learners: Continuing the legacy of David A. Watkins -- 2 A journey through David Watkins's research and contribution to cross-cultural psychology -- Part 1: Beliefs about learning and schooling -- 3 The indispensable role of culture in shaping children's learning beliefs -- 4 Understanding of students' beliefs about knowledge and learni…
1 Introduction -- PART I AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO EDUCATION -- 2 Cultural Evolution: Past, Present and Futures -- 3 Psychological Developmental: Child and Adolescent -- 4 Evolving Education: Pre-formal and Formal -- PART II POSTFORMAL PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION: A DIALOGUE -- 5 Postformal in Psychology: Beyond Piaget’s Formal Operations -- 6 Postformalism in Education: Beyond the Formal Fac…
Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Risk Factors for Psy-Diagnosis? -- Chapter 2. Child Development and the Shifting Regulation of Young Learner Subjects -- Chapter 3. ‘The Elephant in the Room’ -- Chapter 4. Re-thinking Pointiness -- Chapter 5. Becoming a Knowable and Testable Learner -- Chapter 6. ‘How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?’ -- Chapter 7. Facebook 52 -- Chapter 8. Post-Psychol…
This book proposes a new theory on children’s thinking (cognitive) development. According to this theory, the stages of said development should be divided into four stages: first, the stage of animalistic thinking (birth–before possessing basic language ability); second, the stage of elementary thinking (beginning to possess basic language ability–beginning to possess proficient oral abil…