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  • The Impact of COVID-19 on Early Childhood Education and Care

    International Perspectives, Challenges, and Responses

    Series series Education (R0)
    This collection brings together a diverse group of scholars from throughout the world who have grappled with and investigated the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the lives of young children. Profound changes have occurred in all facets of early childhood education and care (ECEC). Young children and their families, college students enrolled in teacher preparation programs, inservice teachers ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Father Involvement in Young Children’s Lives

    A Global Analysis

    Edited by Jyotsna Pattnaik ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This vital addition to Springer’s ‘Educating the Young Child’ series addresses gaps in the literature on father involvement in the lives of young children, a topic with a fast-rising profile in today’s world of female breadwinners and single-parent households. While the significant body of theoretical understanding and empirical data accumulated in recent decades has done much to characterize the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Childhood in South Asia

    A Critical Look at Issues, Policies, and Programs

    Edited by Jyotsna Pattnaik ...
    Series series Research in Global Child Advocacy
    The book has drawn an interdisciplinary pool of authors, some of whom are natives of South Asian countries and others who have been involved extensively in the region through their affiliations with various international organizations. The book represents children's issues in six South Asian countries: India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh. The authors in the book ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

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  • Self-Efficacy

    Thought Control Of Action

    Edited by Ralf Schwarzer ...
    The goal of this book is to illustrate the change in emphasis during the 1980s from one dominated by a behaviouristic perspective to one much more congnitive in its emphasis. It is aimed at research psychologists and graduate-level psychology students. ... Read more

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  • Education and Youth Agency

    Qualitative Case Studies in Global Contexts

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of studies on youth agency across various parts of the world. It explores diverse perspectives on education, citizenship and future livelihoods, modernity and tradition, gender equality, and social norms and transformations as they relate to how young people construct their agency. Drawing on case studies of young women and men from Africa, the Americas ... Read more

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  • Children's Understanding

    The Development of Mental Models

    This work argues that cognitive development is experience driven, and processes entailed in acquiring information about the world are analyzed based on recent models of learning and induction. The way information is represented and accessed when performing cognitive tasks is considered paying particular attention to the implications of Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) models for cognitive ... Read more

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  • Representing Development

    The social construction of models of change

    Series series Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation
    Representing Development presents the different social representations that have formed the idea of development in Western thinking over the past three centuries. Offering an acute perspective on the current state of developmental science and providing constructive insights into future pathways, the bookdraws together twelve contributors with a variety of multidisciplinary and international ... Read more

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  • Education for Civic and Political Participation

    A Critical Approach

    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Participation as an element of active citizenship in democracies is a key project of international and national educational policy. Institutionalized approaches for compulsory schools provide participatory access to all young European citizens. But does this picture depict the possibilities and practices of participation appropriately? Can this standard approach to participation be translated into ... Read more

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  • Interaction, Communication and Development

    Psychological development as a social process

    Series series Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation
    For decades there has been considerable interest in the ways that interactions between children can provide a beneficial context for the study of cognitive and social development. In this book Psaltis and Zapiti use both theoretical and empirical research to build on the perspectives of Piaget, Vygotsky, Moscovici, and others including the legacy of Gerard Duveen, to offer a state of the art ... Read more

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  • Educational Leaders Without Borders

    Rising to Global Challenges to Educate All

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Building from the history of inequality in education up to current problems, this text posits viewpoints on how to cultivate humanistic leaders in education to best benefit underserved children around the world. Among perspectives examined are economic, cultural, and political circumstances that benefit some and harm others, creating educational inequality. To illustrate the work that must be done ... Read more

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  • Behaving

    What's Genetic, What's Not, and Why Should We Care?

    Behaving presents an overview of the recent history and methodology of behavioral genetics and psychiatric genetics, informed by a philosophical perspective. Kenneth F. Schaffner addresses a wide range of issues, including genetic reductionism and determinism, "free will," and quantitative and molecular genetics. The latter covers newer genome-wide association studies (GWAS) that have produced a ... Read more

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