Educational Psychology Reader

Contents: Greg S. Goodman: Critical Thinking: How Good Questions Affect Classrooms - Greg S. Goodman: Coming to a Critical Constructivism: Roots and Branches - Joe L. Kincheloe: Beyond Reductionism: Difference, Criticality, and Multilogicality in the Bricolage and Postformalism - Dengting Boyanton: Behaviorism and Its Effect upon Learning in the Schools - Russell A. Barkley: School Interventions for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Where to from Here? - Paul Beare/Colleen Torgerson/Kelly Dubois-Gerchak: A Positive Procedure to Increase Compliance in the General Education Classroom for a Student with Serious Emotional Disorders - David Weber: The Limitations of a Behavioral Approach in Most Educational Settings - Susan Jean Mayer: Dewey's Dynamic Integration of Vygotsky and Piaget - David Jardine: On the Origins of Constructivism: The Kantian Ancestry of Jean Piaget's Genetic Epistemology - David Jardine: Jean Piaget and the Origins of Intelligence: A Return to "Life Itself" - Cathrene Connery/Christina Curran: A Cultural-Historical Teacher Starts the School Year: A Novel Perspective on Teaching and Learning - Jeff Duncan-Andrade: To Study Is a Revolutionary Duty - Herb Kohl: Eating, Drinking, and Acting: The Magic of Freire - Binbin Jiang: English Language Learners: Understanding Their Needs - Chris Vang: The Psycho-Social Dimensions of Multicultural Education - Patricia Kolencik: Affective and Motivational Factors for Learning and Achievement - Barry J. Zimmerman: Self-Efficacy: An Essential Motive to Learn - Laurie B. Hanich/Sandra Deemer: Teaching Educational Psychology Online: An Examination of Student Motivation and Learning in a Graduate Course - Kathleen Murphy: Motivation and Reading: Focus on Content Literacy - Julia Ellis/Susan Fitzsimmons/Jan Small-McGinley: Encouraging the Discouraged: Students' Views for Elementary Classrooms - Laurie B. Hanich: Using Student Interviews to Understand Theories of Motivation - Carol Lee: The Centrality of Culture

The Editor: Greg S. Goodman is Assistant Professor of Education at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include school psychology, educational psychology, distance learning, and how people learn.

«The possibilities are endless. This unique volume offers a broad perspective on the numerous complexities of current educational climate. As well, many of the chapters focus on specific school-based and classroom-based issues. The book offers sweeping horizons on some traditional and some less traditional educational psychological topics including constructivist and postformalist perspectives, behaviorism, Piaget and Vygotsky, Paulo Freire's legacies, motivation, assessment, teacher education, and complex ecologies. From the theoretical to the practical the book offers educational psychologists and other educational thinkers an array of lenses on the educational intricacies present at the turn of the 21st century. The book is a testament to the enduring issues addressed by educational psychologists and to the ever-changing, ever-developing matrix of the psychological, the educational, the social, the theoretical, the practical, and the political. What is most inspiring for me as a pragmatically-based thinker is the numerous manifestations that educational psychology can take, demonstrations of the art, and the science of new questions, new possibilities.» (David R. Holliway, Assistant Professor of Educational Research, Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling Psychology, Washington State University Tri-Cities)
«In this collection of new research and reflection on the field of educational psychology, editor Goodman has assembled some of the best international scholars. The diversity of contributors, from Carol Lee to Jianping Shen and from Suzanne Gallagher to Floyd Beachum, attests to the positive effects of multicultural and critical race theories upon the field of educational psychology. For those ready to implement authentic and informed changes in their schools, a welcome and refreshing re-examination of how people learn is revealed in 'Educational Psychology Reader'.» (Antwi Akom, Professor, San Francisco State University)
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