This volume addresses emerging trends in curriculum and technology at the intersection of national and international challenges. It shows how curriculum influences schooling, society, and global changes, making it vital for scholars and educators in an era of remote teaching.
This volume explores the mental lexicon from a multitude of perspectives, covering meaning creation, language development, and contemporary discourse. A must-read for anyone interested in a broader overview of the field, it offers seminal approaches for future research.
Metacognition is “thinking about thinking.” In this book, 33 scholars offer techniques and strategies to develop it. Eighteen chapters explore its role in children’s learning, diverse students, the arts, obsessive-compulsive disorders, and as a bridge to the deaf.
Becoming Scientific
Why do some people avidly engage with science while others hate it? This book explores the ‘science identities’ of diverse people through their life stories, providing strategies for educators and parents to foster and support a lifelong journey with science.
Figurativity is not mere linguistic flourish, but constitutive of human comprehension, communication, and functioning. This volume explores the cognitive operations behind non-literal thought and expression across various languages, cultures, and media.
Drawing from Memories
This book explores drawing from memory, synthesizing representation, memory, space, and creativity. For both scientific and artistic readers, it reveals drawing as a transformative act of invention, opening new perspectives on perception and creative expression.
The Story Cookbook
The Story Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of over 80 story-based activities. This easy-to-follow guide provides a treasure trove of techniques to apply and adapt. It is a must-read for consultants, educators, and leaders using storytelling for positive change.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps patients reclaim their quality of life. This portable book summarises the practical application of CBT, helping dental practitioners use it to treat patient issues like dental fears, orofacial pain, and other psychosomatic disorders.
In a series of judgments, an error in one is passed to the next because each judgment acts as a reference point for its successor. This book explores this phenomenon, known as ‘absolute identification,’ and the biases that result. A key text for psychologists studying judgment.
On Personal Space, the Traversable Self, and the Happily Ever Experience
This book explores the symbolic relationship between personal space and the Cinderella fairy-tale. It characterizes personal space as a deeply individual realm of memory and self, where such nuanced associations are the essence of the happily ever after personal experience.
Uncover the hidden power of metaphor in the media. This collection reveals how manipulative framing in news and film shapes reality and offers fresh insights to help you decode bias and avoid being misled. Essential for any critical thinker.
This text compiles conceptual research in cognitive linguistics and empirical studies on language, showing the current state of five areas of cognitive explorations of language, namely conceptual blending, narratology, multimodality, linguistic creativity and construction grammar
Moving Bodies, Wandering Minds
This book explores the connection between movement—both physical and mental—and creativity. Research shows physical activity has cognitive benefits like improving memory, while intentional mind-wandering can enhance creative ideation. This book summarizes this fascinating link.
Counterterrorism and Public Diplomacy
This book presents an innovative approach to counterterrorism. It shows how to prevent recruitment by engaging vulnerable groups and changing how they think and act, offering a new strategic and tactical perspective for state and non-state actors.
Inclusive Hospitality in Online Learning
Inclusive hospitality counters the impersonal nature of online learning by creating a welcoming, safe, and engaging environment. This book provides a path and tools for faculty to welcome and instruct students in a powerful, transformative manner, valuing them as individuals.
Many topical tasks of logical analysis, such as forming and testing hypotheses or searching for inconsistencies in reasoning, are often outside the scope of standard logic courses. This book demonstrates two simple mathematical systems that model reasoning and solve these tasks.
Conceptual Blending and the Arts
Warchoł analyses how the processes described in Conceptual Blending Theory can be applied in practice, on the basis of Michał Batory’s posters designed for artistic events, highlighting how Batory’s artefacts influence people and convey hidden messages.
Practical Action
This book presents a dynamic model of practical action that challenges the one imposed by the cognitive sciences. Integrating Wittgenstein, pragmatism, and interactionist sociology, it reveals a radically contextual conception of human individual and collective behaviour.
What is the structure of conscious experience? This book argues it is narrative form. This allows us to communicate our experience, but more importantly, to make informed predictions about the future, assess potential threats, and take action to prevent their occurrence.
Cultural Memory Studies
This overview of cultural memory theories explores how communities establish their identity—a process now challenged by the digital turn. The book presents arguments by the most important memory theorists and describes the most significant forms of cultural memory.