International handbook of psychology in education / edited by Karen Littleton, Clare Wood, Judith Kleine Staarman.

Originally published: 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Early biological and cultural influences on young children's development, learning and educational attainment. Evolutionary and genetic perspectives on educational attainment / Brian Byrne [and others] -- The role of attachment and play in young children's learning and development / Artin Göncü, Barbara Abel and Melissa Boshans -- Interaction, relationships and learning. The guided construction of knowledge : talk between teachers and students / Judith Kleine Staarman and Neil Mercer -- Peer collaboration and learning in the classroom / Eva Vass and Karen Littleton -- Argumentation and reasoning / Baruch B. Schwarz and Christa S.C. Asterhan -- Learning communities in the classroom / Kai Hakkarainen -- Peer relations in school / Peter Blatchford and Ed Baines -- Cultures, creativity and technologies. Learning and social interaction in culturally diverse classrooms / Ed Elbers -- Creativity in school / Seana Moran -- Technology and learning : a multimodal approach / Carey Jewitt -- Learning with computer tools and environments : a sociocultural perspective / Ingvill Rasmussen and Sten Ludvigsen -- Technologies for formal and informal learning / Charles Crook and Sarah Lewthwaite -- Individual differences and children's experiences of education. Children's experiences of education / Mary Kellett -- Academic self-concept : the role of positive self-beliefs in educational psychology / Herbert W. Marsh and Karolina Retali -- Perspectives on motivation : what mechanisms energise students' behaviour in the classroom / Monique Boekaerts, Hanneke Van Nuland and Rob Martens -- Understanding and supporting children experiencing dyslexia and ADHD : constitutional and classroom influences / Robert Savage and Louise Deault -- Knowledge, assessment and achievement. Single case studies of cognitive development and their educational relevance / Elaine Funnell, Sylvia Steel -- Procedural and conceptual knowledge : defining mathematical competences with examples from children's arithmetic / Katherine Canobi -- Metacognition, self-regulation and meta-knowing / David Whitebread and Deborah Pino Pasternak -- Bilingual children : language and assessment issues for educators / Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole.