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  • Converging Perspectives on Conceptual Change

    Mapping an Emerging Paradigm in the Learning Sciences

    Edited by Olivia Levrini, Tamer G. Amin ...
    Conceptual change, how conceptual understanding is transformed, has been investigated extensively since the 1970s. The field has now grown into a multifaceted, interdisciplinary effort with strands of research in cognitive and developmental psychology, education, educational psychology, and the learning sciences. Converging Perspectives on Conceptual Change brings together an extensive team of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Engaging with Contemporary Challenges through Science Education Research

    Selected papers from the ESERA 2019 Conference

    Edited by Olivia Levrini, Giulia Tasquier, Tamer G. Amin, Laura Branchetti, Mariana Levin ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book starts with the premise that beauty can be an engine of transformation and authentic engagement in an increasingly complex world. It presents an organized picture of highlights from the 13th European Science Education Research Association Conference, ESERA 2019, held in Bologna, Italy. The collection includes contributions that discuss contemporary issues such as climate change, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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  • Language, Cognition, and Human Nature

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    by Steven Pinker ...
    Language, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time much of Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker's seminal research explores the workings of language and its connections to cognition, perception, social relationships, child development, human evolution, and theories of human nature. This eclectic collection spans Pinker's thirty ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Agent-Based Computational Sociology

    by Flaminio Squazzoni ...
    Most of the intriguing social phenomena of our time, such as international terrorism, social inequality, and urban ethnic segregation, are consequences of complex forms of agent interaction that are difficult to observe methodically and experimentally. This book looks at a new research stream that makes use of advanced computer simulation modelling techniques to spotlight agent interaction that ... Read more

    $74.00 USD

  • The Brain and the Meaning of Life

    by Paul Thagard ...
    How brain science answers the most intriguing questions about the meaning of lifeWhy is life worth living? What makes actions right or wrong? What is reality and how do we know it? The Brain and the Meaning of Life draws on research in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to answer some of the most pressing questions about life's nature and value. Paul Thagard argues that evidence requires the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science

    Edited by Keith Frankish, William Ramsey ...
    Cognitive science is a cross-disciplinary enterprise devoted to understanding the nature of the mind. In recent years, investigators in philosophy, psychology, the neurosciences, artificial intelligence, and a host of other disciplines have come to appreciate how much they can learn from one another about the various dimensions of cognition. The result has been the emergence of one of the most ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Free Will and Consciousness

    A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will

    by Gregg D. Caruso ...
    In recent decades, with advances in the behavioral, cognitive, and neurosciences, the idea that patterns of human behavior may ultimately be due to factors beyond our conscious control has increasingly gained traction and renewed interest in the age-old problem of free will. In this book, Gregg D. Caruso examines both the traditional philosophical problems long associated with the question of free ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Concept and Design Developments in School Improvement Research

    Longitudinal, Multilevel and Mixed Methods and Their Relevance for Educational Accountability

    Edited by Arnoud Oude Groote Beverborg, Tobias Feldhoff, Katharina Maag Merki, Falk Radisch ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book discusses challenges in school improvement research and different methodological approaches that have the potential to foster school improvement research. Research on school improvement and accountability analysis places high demands on a study’s design and method. The potential of combining the depth of case studies with the breath of quantitative measures and analyses in a ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences

    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
    The interdisciplinary field of the learning sciences encompasses educational psychology, cognitive science, computer science, and anthropology, among other disciplines. The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences, first published in 2006, is the definitive introduction to this innovative approach to teaching, learning, and educational technology. In this significantly revised third edition, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Cognitive Science

    by Mark J. Cain ...
    In recent decades cognitive science has revolutionised our understanding of the workings of the human mind. Philosophy has made a major contribution to cognitive science and has itself been hugely influenced by its development. This dynamic book explores the philosophical significance of cognitive science and examines the central debates that have enlivened its history.In a wide-ranging and ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition

    Edited by Linnda R. Caporael, James R. Griesemer, William C. Wimsatt ...
    Series Book 17 - Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
    Empirical and philosophical perspectives on scaffolding that highlight the role of temporal and temporary resources in development across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution."Scaffolding" is a concept that is becoming widely used across disciplines. This book investigates common threads in diverse applications of scaffolding, including theoretical biology, cognitive science, social ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The War Between Mentalism and Behaviorism

    On the Accessibility of Mental Processes

    by William R. Uttal ...
    Series series Scientific Psychology Series
    This book considers one of the most fundamental, but only infrequently considered, issues in psychology--Are mental processes accessible by means of verbal reports and/or experimental assays? It is argues that this is the main characteristic distinguishing between behaviorism and mentalistic cognitivism. The answer posed by the author is that, with few exceptions and for the most fundamental ... Read more

    $82.99 USD