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  • Understanding and Enriching Problem Solving in Primary Mathematics

    by Patrick Barmby, David Bolden, Lynn Thompson ...
    Series series Critical Teaching
    This up to date book is essential reading for all those teaching or training to teach primary mathematics. Problem solving is a key aspect of teaching and learning mathematics, but also an area where teachers and pupils often struggle. Set within the context of the new primary curriculum and drawing on research and practice, the book identifies the key knowledge and skills required in teaching and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Nature and Development of Mathematics

    Cross Disciplinary Perspectives on Cognition, Learning and Culture

    Edited by John Adams, Patrick Barmby, Alex Mesoudi ...
    From an infant’s first grasp of quantity to Einstein’s theory of relativity, the human experience of number has intrigued researchers for centuries. Numeracy and mathematics have played fundamental roles in the development of societies and civilisations, and yet there is an essential mystery to these concepts, evidenced by the fear many people still feel when confronted by apparently simple sums ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Developmental Psychology

    A Student's Handbook

    by Margaret Harris, George Butterworth ...
    Developmental Psychology: A Student's Handbook is a major textbook that provides an up-to-date account of theory and research in the rapidly-changing field of child development. Margaret Harris and George Butterworth have produced an outstanding volume that includes recent research from Britain, Europe, and the USA.The text is designed for undergraduate students who have little or no prior ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Teaching for Understanding

    What it is and how to do it

    by Douglas P Newton ...
    First published in 2012. Why does understanding really matter? Why do some learners fail to understand? At a time when league tables can be everything, examination grades matter. Perhaps more than many would admit, the cost is a lack of understanding. The new edition of Teaching for Understanding provides practical advice about how to support understanding in both children and adults. It is for ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Feeling Body

    Affective Science Meets the Enactive Mind

    by Giovanna Colombetti ...
    A proposal that extends the enactive approach developed in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to issues in affective science.In The Feeling Body, Giovanna Colombetti takes ideas from the enactive approach developed over the last twenty years in cognitive science and philosophy of mind and applies them for the first time to affective science—the study of emotions, moods, and feelings. She ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition

    by Zoltan Dornyei ...
    Series series Oxford Applied Linguistics
    The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition offers a systematic and accessible overview of the main psychological areas and theories in order to keep abreast of the ongoing paradigm shift. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Creating Language

    Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing

    by Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater ...
    A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences.Language is a hallmark of the human species; the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities is unique in the biological world. In this book, Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater argue that to understand this ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Developmental Psychology

    How Nature and Nurture Interact

    by Keith Richardson ...
    This clear and authoritative text provides a trenchant critique of dichotomous thinking and goes on to describe and exemplify an alternative view of development, showing the power of ecological and dynamic systems perspectives. Thematic chapters identify the classic assumptions of the nature-nurture debate and present the reader with new ways of thinking about these issues. The book begins with ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Mental Mechanisms

    Philosophical Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience

    by William Bechtel ...
    A variety of scientific disciplines have set as their task explaining mental activities, recognizing that in some way these activities depend upon our brain. But, until recently, the opportunities to conduct experiments directly on our brains were limited. As a result, research efforts were split between disciplines such as cognitive psychology, li ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • A Paul Meehl Reader

    Essays on the Practice of Scientific Psychology

    Edited by Niels G. Waller, Leslie J. Yonce, William M. Grove, David Faust, Mark F. Lenzenweger ...
    Series series Multivariate Applications Series
    This new book introduces a new generation to the important insights of Paul Meehl. In addition to selected papers from the classic reader, Psychodiagnosis, this book features new material selected from Meehl's most influential writings. The resulting collection is a tour de force illustrating quantitative analysis of life science problems, an examination of the inadequacy of some methods of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Enactivist Interventions

    Rethinking the Mind

    by Shaun Gallagher ...
    Enactivist Interventions is an interdisciplinary work that explores how theories of embodied cognition illuminate many aspects of the mind, including intentionality, representation, the affect, perception, action and free will, higher-order cognition, and intersubjectivity. Gallagher argues for a rethinking of the concept of mind, drawing on pragmatism, phenomenology and cognitive science. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD