The education of selves : how psychology transformed students / Jack Martin and Ann-Marie McLellan.
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- Language:
- English
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
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- 0-19-991368-4
- 0-19-991367-6
- OCLC:
- 859536712
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