The education of selves : how psychology transformed students / Jack Martin and Ann-Marie McLellan.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Martin, Jack, 1950-

Contributor:

• McLellan, Ann-Marie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Educational psychology.
• Transformative learning.
• Self-actualization (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title examines the role that psychology (especially educational psychology) played in the transformation of American and Canadian classrooms and schools into sites for the self-development of students, creating an ideal image of the successful student as self-expressive, enterprising, and entitled to forms of education that recognize and cater to such expressivity and enterprise.

Contents:

• An introduction to a critical history of psychology in education
• The self before and after psychology: the transformation begins
• Educational psychology's role in the education of selves
• Feeling good about your self: self-esteem as an educational goal
• Understand thy self: all about self-concept
• Be confident in what you do: self-efficacy and agency
• Managing your self: self-regulation at school and beyond
• Putting it all together: the triple E student (expressive, enterprising, entitled)
• There is another way: educating communal agents.

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 0-19-991368-4
• 0-19-991367-6

OCLC:

859536712