Extending Intelligence

Enhancement and New Constructs

Edited by Patrick C. Kyllonen, Richard D. Roberts, Lazar Stankov

This volume presents research from a variety of perspectives on the enhancement of human intelligence. It is organized around five themes – enhancement via instruction;...

Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge.

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At-Risk Children and Youth

Resiliency Explored

By Niall McElwee

Discover strategies to reinforce the strengths of the youngest members of society

What assistance can be provided to a disadvantaged youngster to help them bounce...

Published October 25th 2007 by Routledge.

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Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning

Theory, Research, and Applications

Edited by Dale H. Schunk, Barry J. Zimmerman

This volume focuses on the role of motivational processes – such as goals, attributions, self-efficacy, outcome expectations, self-concept, self-esteem, social comparisons, emotions, values, and self-evaluations–...

Published October 11th 2007 by Routledge.

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Motivation for Achievement

Possibilities for Teaching and Learning

By M. Kay Alderman

Understanding student and teacher motivation and developing strategies to foster motivation for students at all levels of performance are essential to effective teaching. This text...

Published September 25th 2007 by Routledge.

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Strengths-Based School Counseling

Promoting Student Development and Achievement

By John P. Galassi, Patrick Akos

Despite calls for a more preventive and developmental mode of functioning, school counseling has tended to be driven by a reactive and sometimes crisis orientation....

Published September 11th 2007 by Routledge.

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Motivation and Learning Strategies for College Success

A Self-management Approach

By Myron H. Dembo, Helena Seli

If you haven’t used Motivation and Learning Strategies for College Success in your study skills course, it’s time for a change! This popular text combines...

Published August 24th 2007 by Routledge.

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Handbook of Research in School Consultation

Edited by William P. Erchul, Susan M. Sheridan

The field of school consultation, which is centered principally in school psychology and cuts across related disciplines such as special education and school counseling, has...

Published July 27th 2007 by Routledge.

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High School Students' Competing Social Worlds

Negotiating Identities and Allegiances in Response to Multicultural Literature

By Richard Beach, Amanda Haertling Thein, Daryl L. Parks

This book examines how working-class high school students’ identity construction is continually mediated by discourses and cultural practices operating in their classroom, school, family, sports,...

Published July 27th 2007 by Routledge.

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Engaging Minds

Changing Teaching in Complex Times

By Brent Davis, Dennis Sumara, Rebecca Luce-Kapler

Engaging Minds is an introduction to current interdisciplinary studies of teaching and learning to teach. It offers practical suggestions for teachers in the context of...

Published July 27th 2007 by Routledge.

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Dialogue and the Development of Children's Thinking

A Sociocultural Approach

By Neil Mercer, Karen Littleton

This book draws on extensive research to provide a ground-breaking new account of the relationship between dialogue and children’s learning development. It closely relates the...

Published June 28th 2007 by Routledge.

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