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  • Motivation, Achievement, and Situated Expectancy-Value Theory

    Making One's Future

    How do young people determine what activities they value--and are good at? What motivates an individual to choose a particular career? What key factors should be addressed in interventions to enhance academic engagement? This book offers the first comprehensive presentation of situated expectancy–value theory (SEVT), a multidimensional model that has guided research into motivation and achievement ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Developing Identity in Adolescence

    African American Youth Navigating Race-Ethnicity

    Explores racial/ethnic identity development as a life-long process of negotiating self, context, and others' perceptions and behaviors from early adolescence to adulthood.Guided by early foundational and recent compelling theories on race/ethnicity and identity development across the lifespan, Celina Chatman Nelson, Stephen C. Peck, Oksana Malanchuk, and Jacquelynne S. Eccles provide a detailed ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Contextual Influences on Life Span/life Course

    A Special Issue of Research in Human Development

    Edited by Jacquelynne S. Eccles ...
    This special issue covers different aspects of life course development. The central argument of the first paper is that human development should be viewed as the product of the interpenetration of cultural and biological processes. The following article outlines how current sociology constructs life courses. The notion of developmental biocultural co-constructivism and specifically the zone within ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Gender Differences in Aspirations and Attainment

    A Life Course Perspective

    What is the role of parents, peers and teachers in shaping school experiences and informing the career choice of males and females? Does the school context matter, and to what extent do educational experiences influence young people's self-concept, values and their outlook to the future? Do teenage aspirations influence later outcomes regarding educational attainment and the assumption of work and ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Organized Activities As Contexts of Development

    Extracurricular Activities, After School and Community Programs

    School-aged children in the U.S. and other Western nations spend almost half of their waking hours in leisure activities. For some, out-of-school time is perceived as inconsequential or even counterproductive to the health and well-being of young persons. Recently, however, there has been a growing recognition that--along with family, peers, and school--the organized activities in which some youth ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Handbook of Research on Schools, Schooling and Human Development

    Children spend more time in school than in any social institution outside the home. And schools probably exert more influence on children’s development and life chances than any environment beyond the home and neighbourhood. The purpose of this book is to document some important ways schools influence children’s development and to describe various models and methods for studying schooling effects. ... Read more

    $199.99 USD

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  • Handbook of Competence and Motivation

    Theory and Application

    Now completely revised (over 90% new), this handbook established the concept of competence as an organizing framework for the field of achievement motivation. With an increased focus on connecting theory to application, the second edition incorporates diverse perspectives on why and how individuals are motivated to work toward competence in school, work, sports, and other settings. Leading ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Handbook of Adult Resilience

    What enables people to bounce back from stressful experiences? How do certain individuals maintain a sense of purpose and direction over the long term, even in the face of adversity? This is the first book to move beyond childhood and adolescence to explore resilience across the lifespan. Coverage ranges from genetic and physiological factors through personal, family, organizational, and community ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Handbook of Group Counseling and Psychotherapy

    The most comprehensive and thoroughly researched text available on this topic, Handbook of Group Counseling and Psychotherapy, Second Edition underscores the notion that group work is improved through increased collaboration between researchers and practitioners. Edited by renowned leaders in the field, this thoroughly updated and revised Second Edition explores current literature and research and ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Handbook of Research on Student Engagement

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    For more than two decades, the concept of student engagement has grown from simple attention in class to a construct comprised of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components that embody and further develop motivation for learning. Similarly, the goals of student engagement have evolved from dropout prevention to improved outcomes for lifelong learning. This robust expansion has led to numerous ... Read more

    $197.09 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships

    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
    With the field of personal relationships having grown dramatically in the past quarter century, The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships, Second Edition serves as a benchmark of the current state of scholarship, synthesizing the extant theoretical and empirical literature, tracing its historical roots, and making recommendations for future directions. Written by internationally known ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Becoming a High Expectation Teacher

    Raising the bar

    We constantly hear cries from politicians for teachers to have high expectations. But what this means in practical terms is never spelled out. Simply deciding that as a teacher you will expect all your students to achieve more than other classes you have taught in the same school, is not going to translate automatically into enhanced achievement for students.Becoming a High Expectation Teacher is ... Read more

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