The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Psychology of Education (Readers in Education)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
Assessment......Page 18
The psychological assessment of reading: theoretical issues and professional solutions......Page 20
Dreams, strategies and systems: portraits of assessment past, present and future......Page 40
Language......Page 60
Language talk......Page 62
Is 'exploratory talk' productive talk?......Page 78
Motivation......Page 98
Ways of understanding motivation......Page 100
Tracking the development of learning dispositions......Page 117
Cognition and development......Page 144
Models of cognition in childhood: metaphors, achievements and problems......Page 146
Cognitive development: no stages please    we're British......Page 195
Intelligence......Page 214
The vertical mind    the case for multiple intelligences......Page 216
Socializing intelligence......Page 232
Memory......Page 244
Memory research: past mistakes and future prospects......Page 246
Conversational remembering: a social psychological approach......Page 261
Cooperative learning......Page 280
When and why does cooperative learning increase achievement? Theoretical and empirical perspectives......Page 282
Collaborative learning with computers......Page 305
Activity theory......Page 318
Looking beyond the interface: activity theory and distributed learning......Page 320
Behaviour management......Page 338
An ecosystemic approach to emotional and behavioural difficulties in schools......Page 340