**Meet the editor**

Victorița Trif is an associate professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences from the University of Bucharest (Romania). She is also an author of many articles and books, including *Cognitive, Semantic and Social Dissonances into Assessment*, published in Germany (Lap Lampert Academic Publishing). She won Best Paper Award for the study *Deconstruction and the Cur-*

*riculum* at the ARSA Annual Conference in 2014 in Slovakia (http://www. arsa-conf.com/arsa-award/) and has been awarded for her books *Lesson Planning: Good Practices* and *Academic Profession or About the Business of Knowledge* at the International Exhibition for Sciences and Teaching Books, Chișinău 2013, in Moldavia (www.bsclupan.asm.md). She has wide experience in research and in teaching courses in the fieldwork of educational psychology and educational sciences.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Trif Victorița

Carlos Ossa-Cornejo

**Perspectives 21** David Tzuriel

Yih Lin and Bing H. Ngu

Susanna Occhipinti

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Will a Cooperation between Polarized Paradigms in Educational Psychology Be Possible? 1**

Chapter 3 **Mother-Child Mediated Learning Experience Strategies and**

Chapter 4 **The Importance of Mindfulness in the Achievement of Optimal**

Chapter 5 **Educational Tools and Methodological Approaches to Enhance**

**Interest and to Grow Skills in the Teaching-Learning of the Earth Sciences: A Research in the Italian Schools 59**

**Children's Cognitive Modifiability: Theoretical and Research**

**Functioning: Conceptualization for Research Development 39** Huy P. Phan, Hui-Wen Wang, Jen-Hwa Shih, Sheng-Ying Shi, Ruey-

Chapter 2 **A Critical Role of the Psychologist: A Way to Achieve Complexity in Educational Psychology 7**
