A pesar del empuje creciente de la psicología cognitiva, hasta tiempos muy recientes el estudio del aprendizaje ha estado dominado por el clásico enfoque conductual. Sin embargo, en los últimos años los psicólogos cognitivos han comenzado a interesarse en los procesos mediante los cuales las personas adquieren conocimientos. Este interés viene promovido no sólo por necesidades teóricas sino, especialmente, por las demandas tecnológicas derivadas del desarrollo de sistemas expertos artificiales y de las exigencias prácticas de intervención en contextos de aprendizaje e instrucción cada día más complejos, tanto en el ámbito educativo como en la formación de adultos, apenas accesibles desde los enfoques conductuales hasta ahora dominantes en aprendizaje. La presente obra realiza un análisis detallado y crítico de las teorías del aprendizaje surgidas desde la psicología cognitiva, tanto las más recientes, basadas en la analogía entre la mente humana y un computador digital, como las ya clásicas aportaciones de la psicología cognitiva europea. Además de contribuir a una mejor comprensión de las relaciones entre Psicología e Informática, el libro plantea también consecuencias relevantes para el diseño de situaciones de instrucción en las que se requiera la adquisición de conocimientos científicos o, en un sentido más general, la captación de nuevos significados o destrezas. La exposición de las teorías y su análisis crítico tienen aplicación en numerosas áreas de aprendizaje, ayudando a fomentar contextos en los que las personas aprendan de un modo más eficiente.

Anne Meyer and David Rose, who first laid out the principles of UDL, provide an ambitious, engaging discussion of new research and best practices. This book gives the UDL field an essential and authoritative learning resource for the coming years. In the 1990s, Anne Meyer, David Rose, and their colleagues at CAST introduced Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as a framework to improve teaching and learning in the digital age, sparking an international reform movement. Now Meyer and Rose return with Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice, an up-to-date multimedia online book (with print and e-book options) that leverages more than a decade of research and implementation. This is the first significant new statement on UDL since 2002, an ambitious, engaging exploration of ideas and best practices that provides the growing UDL field with an essential and authoritative learning resource for the coming years. This new work includes contributions from CAST's research and implementation teams as well as from many of CAST's collaborators in schools, universities, and research settings. Readers are invited to contribute ideas, perspectives, and examples from their own practice in an online community of practice. --

Hundreds of grassroots groups have sprung up around the world to teach programming, web design, robotics, and other skills outside traditional classrooms. These groups exist so that people don't have to learn these things on their own, but ironically, their founders and instructors are often teaching themselves how to teach. There's a better way. This book presents evidence-based practices that will help you create and deliver lessons that work and build a teaching community around them. Topics include the differences between different kinds of learners, diagnosing and correcting misunderstandings, teaching as a performance art, what motivates and demotivates adult learners, how to be a good ally, fostering a healthy community, getting the word out, and building alliances with like-minded groups. The book includes over a hundred exercises that can be done individually or in groups, over 350 references, and a glossary to help you navigate educational jargon.

This Child-Friendly Schools (CFS) Manual was developed during three-and-a-half years of continuous work, involving the United Nations Children's Fund education staff and specialists from partner agencies working on quality education. It benefits from fieldwork in 155 countries and territories, evaluations carried out by the Regional Offices and desk reviews conducted by headquarters in New York. The manual is a part of a total resource package that includes an e-learning package for capacity-building in the use of CFS models and a collection of field case studies to illustrate the state of the art in child-friendly schools in a variety of settings.

There have been huge advances in our ability to diagnose autism and in the development of effective interventions that can change children’s lives. In this extraordinary book, Lynn Kern Koegel, a leading clinician, researcher, and cofounder of the renowned Autism Research Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara, combines her cutting-edge expertise with the everyday perspectives of Claire LaZebnik, a writer whose experience with a son with autism provides a rare window into the disorder. Together, they draw on the highly effective “pivotal response” approach developed at the center to provide concrete ways of improving the symptoms of autism and the emotional struggles that surround it, while reminding readers never to lose sight of the humor that lurks in the disability’s quirkiness or the importance of enjoying your child. From the shock of diagnosis to the step-by-step work with verbal communication, social interaction, self-stimulation, meltdowns, fears, and more, the answers are here-in a book that is as warm and nurturing as it is authoritative.