This foundational text for an emerging field integrates the vast context of yoga with Western psychology. This inquiry combines the perennial wisdom of yoga with breakthroughs in somatic psychology, trauma research, and insights from neuroscience.
Creative Learning and MOOCs
This publication showcases papers presented at the 11th Learning and Technology Conference held in Saudi Arabia in 2014, reflecting upon the recent implementation of Massive Open Online Courses, which provide opportunities for learning to large numbers of students at little cost.
This volume explores extension—a fundamental, yet largely unexplored, aspect of language. Contributors investigate its regularities, limits, and influence on grammar and meaning, using rich examples from English, French, Polish, Russian, and German.
This monograph highlights that school climate is a science of education and psychology that must be studied in detail in order to understand the dynamic nature of learning environments, and to learn how to improve the conditions for learning in all schools.
This volume addresses the long-standing debate on the “word”. Eleven authors analyze its multi-faceted nature from multiple linguistic perspectives, contributing to a more thorough comprehension than any single approach can afford.
How can native-speaking teachers meet the high expectations of EFL learners? This book explores the crucial gap between student beliefs and teacher practices, offering vital strategies for creating more effective classrooms.
This collection offers lively and informed discussions of important themes in contemporary psychoanalytic discourse. These essays demonstrate that the future of psychoanalytic studies is full of promise.
This overview of teaching psychology internationally incorporates research from psychologists in over 30 countries. A must-read for instructors, psychologists, and students interested in the international aspects of the discipline.
The Committed Workforce
This research explores the relationship between organizational commitment and job satisfaction, showing how it is influenced by the economic sector. Job satisfaction is a key mediator, linking an employee’s commitment to positive organizational citizenship behaviours.
This collection explores enhancing human performance. It examines disparate contexts and the many factors that impinge on performance, revealing the conditions under which it can be improved, from the effects of exercise to national innovation.
An Integrated Approach to Curricular Contents
This pragmatic work provides concrete, validated teaching methods for an integrated curriculum in primary schools. Based on vast experience, it helps teachers design activities that develop specific and transdisciplinary competences.
Investigating the human side of the UK’s temporary work industry, this study exposes the psychological toll of reduced protection and the fraught power dynamics between workers, agencies, and employers.
Constructing Capacities
This book explores how learning helps people build capacities to overcome challenges. Through diverse, researched accounts, it generates new understandings of how capacities can be constructed effectively and sustainably.
Common Threads
Common Threads explores the artistic identity and memory of ten textile artists. Through their stories, it reveals how individuals create a cohesive sense of self and deepens our understanding of what it means to be an artist.
Regarding the Mind, Naturally
This book asks philosophical questions about the mind in the context of recent developments in cognitive science and evolutionary theory. Using naturalistic approaches, it explores the mind’s place in the world and re-examines traditional philosophical issues.
Connected Minds
This volume explores social cognition from psychological and collective viewpoints. It examines how the human mind processes social information, and how social interactions influence our cognition, shaping everything from stereotypes to entire societies.
Millions are spent on employee training, but often ineffectively. Successful training requires understanding both organizational goals and employee behavior. This book focuses on how to train people to thrive and succeed in the workplace.
This book presents studies on the influence of childhood abuse on adult functioning, including various symptoms, problems, and personality and neurobiological disorders. It also contains psychotherapeutic issues connected with interpersonal trauma.
This handbook is the needed bridge between gestalt therapy and psychotherapy research. It provides vital empirical support for the practice—a timely response to the evidence-based movement and the increasing policy call for “what works.”
Environmental Psychology
This book contains research papers in environment-behaviour studies that address a recurring debate: how can research findings be put into real-world practice? It outlines current views and suggestions on how to more effectively address this ‘research-practice’ relationship.