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    Handbook on Teaching Educational Psychology
    Handbook on Teaching Educational Psychology
    Handbook on Teaching Educational Psychology
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    Handbook on Teaching Educational Psychology

    By Donald J. Treffinger

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    Handbook on Teaching Educational Psychology provides a wide-ranging survey of practices and problems in teaching educational psychology. This book evaluates and reviews the conceptual and methodological bases of the practices. Organized into four parts encompassing 15 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the general problems encountered by the educational psychologists and the techniques for attacking those problems. This text then tackles the problems of defining the boundaries and content educational psychology. Other chapters consider the methodological tools and issues that are employed by educational psychologists in studying educational problems. This book discusses as well the general conceptual and theoretical models that have influences instructional development and research in educational psychology. The final chapter deals with some of the main issues and developments in teaching educational psychology, organized to distinguish between the graduate and undergraduate levels of instruction. This book is a valuable resource for educational psychologists, teachers, and students.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAcademic Press
    Release dateSep 17, 2013
    ISBN9781483258638
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