Across different countries, age ranges, and assessment regimes, a high level of test anxiety
has been identified as posing a risk to student academic achievement and wellbeing. The …

Vygotsky at Work and Play is an intimate portrayal of the Vygotskian-inspired approach to
human development known as 'social therapeutics' and 'the psychology of becoming' …

Closely paralleling the history of psychology is the history of its critics, their theories, and
their contributions. The Critique of Psychology is the first book to trace this alternate history …

Early childhood education is a field that includes practitioners in nursery schools,
elementary schools, Head Start centers, child care centers, family homes, and other …

'Lively and thought provoking… at a key time in the development of primary mathematics
teaching and learning. It offers a very much richer model of mathematics learning than is …

This article is part of a larger scale project on some aspects of the process of academic
socialization of a group of Iranian Ph. D. students studying in five UK universities, particularly …

There are concerns globally about the emotional wellbeing and mental health of young
people and in this paper a critical orientation comprises both theoretical and empirical data …

This chapter examines research on play and early education organized in three sections:(1)
definitions and concepts, including content pertaining to play and learning and play and …

Arguing against the dominant developmental theories (eg, Piaget, 1945; Vygotsky, 1978)
stating that pretend play is limited to early childhood, we illustrate that pretend play is an …

This article explores the use of improvisation (improv) as a lens for viewing and describing
teacher–child interactions. The author describes the relationship between the principles of …