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Psychology of Science
The study of science, sometimes referred to as metascience, is a new and growing field that includes the philosophy of science, history of science, sociology of science, and anthropology of science. In the last ten years, the formal study of the psychology of science has also emerged. The psychology of science focuses on the individual scientist, influenced by intelligence, motivation, personality, and the development of scientific interest, thought, ability, and achievement over a lifespan. Science can be defined as explicitly and systematically testing hypotheses. Defined more broadly, science includes wider processes, such as theory construction and the hypothesis testing seen in children...
The Cognitive Turn
If nothing else, the twelve papers assembled in this volume should lay to rest the idea that the interesting debates about the nature of science are still being conducted by "internalists" vs. "externalists,"" rationalists" vs. "arationalists, n or even "normative epistemologists" vs. "empirical sociologists of knowledge. " Although these distinctions continue to haunt much of the theoretical discussion in philosophy and sociology of science, our authors have managed to elude their strictures by finally getting beyond the post-positivist preoccupation of defending a certain division of labor among the science studies disciplines. But this is hardly to claim that our historians, philosophers,...
New Science of Learning
The earliest educational software simply transferred print material from the page to the monitor. Since then, the Internet and other digital media have brought students an ever-expanding, low-cost knowledge base and the opportunity to interact with minds around the globe—while running the risk of shortening their attention spans, isolating them from interpersonal contact, and subjecting them to information overload. The New Science of Learning: Cognition, Computers and Collaboration in Education deftly explores the multiple relationships found among these critical elements in students’ increasingly complex and multi-paced educational experience. Starting with instructors’ insights into...
Advances in Child Development and Behavior
Advances in Child Development and Behavior
Positive Youth Development
Each chapter provides in-depth discussions and this volume serves as an invaluable resource for Developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students. - Includes chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the area of Positive Youth Development - Each chapter provides in-depth discussions - An invaluable resource for developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students
Encyclopedia of American Education
Preschool, primary school, Private school, proficiency testing, programmed instruction, progressive education, property tax, Protestantism, public school, public school finances, Puritanism, race/racism, reading, reasoning skills, Reconstruction, Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), Revolutionary War, Roman Catholic Church, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, rural education, Scholastic Assessment Tests (SATs), school board, school/college partnership programs, science, Scopes Monkey Trail, secondary education, segregation, self-education, separate but equal doctrine, settlement house, slavery, social problems and education, Socratic method, special education, specialized institution of higher edu...
The Journal of Aesthetic Education
Includes special issues.
Introduction to Child Development
Includes index.
