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Motivation and the struggle to learn : responding to fractured experience / Theresa A. Thorkildsen and John G. Nicholls with Ann Bates, Nancy Brankis, and Thyra DeBolt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thorkildsen, Theresa A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motivation in education--Case studies.
- Motivation in education.
- Learning disabled children--Education--Case studies.
- Learning disabled children.
- Learning disabled children--Education.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Allyn and Bacon, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1 Learning from Lives in Progress 1
- Types of Fractured Experience 5
- Needs and Orientations 6
- Self-Determination 6
- Competence 8
- Affiliation 10
- Needs among Students with Learning Disabilities 11
- Expectations and Responsibilities 12
- Practicing a Language of Synthesis 13
- 2 Little Boy on the Defensive 16
- A Divided Intellectual Life 16
- Helpful Coaching or Facilitated Laziness? 27
- Flashes of Connected Experience 31
- Coaching at Home 33
- Co-Constructing an Unsafe Place 36
- Seeking Friendship: A Means to an End or an End in Itself? 42
- Lessons from Bruce's Life 49
- 3 Quiet Bird 50
- Meet Quiet Bird 53
- Learning to Love Books 60
- Making Room for the Personal Awakens the Intellectual 66
- Quiet Bird Shares His Social Conscience 75
- Living an Integrated Life 80
- Lessons from David's Life 86
- 4 Coordinating Needs and Expectations 88
- Self-Determination in a World Where Obedience Is Easier 88
- Family Contexts 89
- School Contexts 90
- Peer Contexts 90
- Competence in the Face of Continual Challenge 92
- Family Contexts 92
- School Contexts 93
- Peer Contexts 94
- Sustaining Strong Relationships 98
- Family Contexts 99
- School Contexts 102
- Peer Contexts 103
- Fracturing Experience in Multiple Contexts 105
- 5 Enlightened Egocentrism 109
- Searching for Interests 116
- Searching for Meaningful Friendships 118
- Connected Experience in Competition with Discrete Skills 124
- Managing Anxiety among Caregivers 133
- Sustaining Honest Communication 139
- Lessons from Jack's Life 149
- 6 A Fighting Spirit 151
- Identifying Earl's Interests 155
- Searching for the Limelight 158
- Discovering the Pain of Being Different 161
- Literacy among the "Bad Boys" 167
- Tempering Aggression 173
- Impediments to Task Orientation 179
- Writing to Communicate 183
- Lessons from Earl's Life 187
- 7 Responding to Fractured Experience 189
- Bruce's Future 191
- David's Future 195
- Jack's Future 199
- Earl's Future 202
- The Conference We Need 204
- Our Future 206
- Revise Definitions of Equal Educational Opportunity 206
- Strengthen Attempts to Consolidate Experience 207
- Label Educational Experience 207
- Encourage Children to Become Educational Theorists 208
- Call Attention to Moral Agency 208
- Establish an Engaging Learning Environment 209
- Invent Constructive Responses to Resistance 210.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0205335993
- OCLC:
- 46503414
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