Four extensive case studies of academically disengaged students in middle childhood clarify the issues, theories, and strategies educators can use to help students construct meaningful academic lives. Dilemmas, theories, and strategies for constructing meaningful academic lives are highlighted in four extensive case studies. Perspectives of children, caregivers, and researchers are synthesized with findings from research on social development and learning. While other texts in the field focus on specific learning disabilities or a wide range of age groups, Motivation and the Struggle to Learn emphasizes a range of learning disabilites in students experiencing middle childhood.

Motivation and the Struggle to Learn: Responding to Fractured Experience

Education & Teaching

Nicholls, John G.

Thorkildsen, Theresa A.

Schools & Teaching

Allyn&Bacon

This text introduces students to the common measurement tools used in Education and Social Science Research so that they can design, produce, and use new research. This text will show how users of research and assessment tools can become proficient in the production of new instruments and understand the skills necessary for constructing new measures. Details of how psychometric, developmental, and interpretive approaches to measurement are used in a multitude of social sciences are reviewed and supporting activities show how researchers use key measurement concepts. The book can be covered one chapter at a time in a formal measurement course or used as a supplementary text for a course on research design.

Fundamentals of Measurement in Applied Research

Reference

Despite often simplistic, black-and-white portrayals of good and evil, children and adolescents face complicated moral issues that can raise more questions than answers. Becoming aware of what constitutes morality is only the first step in determining a course of action, identifying and avoiding problems, and building communities that nurture morality.  Young people learn to define and respond to moral dilemmas by interacting with and observing numerous sources. They acquire knowledge from family members, teachers, church leaders, peers, and members of neighborhood organizations. Raising themes of cultural pluralism, responsibility, complexity, affectivity, and practicality, Nurturing Morality addresses such issues as:    - Definitions of morality that link past and current debates, enabling a more thorough understanding of moral functioning.    - Personal responsibilities and impediments to moral functioning.    - How societal structures can facilitate or inhibit moral agency and development.    - The importance of acknowledging the common good as well as individual accomplishments.    - Nurturing morality through wisdom.   Drawing from a wide range of independent research programs, Nurturing Morality makes clear that most forms of human interaction are laden with moral content. It highlights thorny and complex moral questions that cannot be resolved by simple adherence to moral rules. And on the basis of empirically grounded findings, contributors to this volume provide recommendations for how adults can offer valuable guidance to young people learning to negotiate life in a global society.  For clinicians, researchers, and students, Nurturing Morality provides much-needed insight and advice on young people’s moral development.

Nurturing Morality (Issues in Children's and Families' Lives, 5)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Walberg, Herbert J.

Mental Health

Springer

Adolescents' Self-Discovery in Groups

Grounded in investigations conducted over the past 25 years, Adolescents’ Self-Discovery in Groups demonstrates how adolescents can become more active in society based on how they form, maintain, and evaluate groups. By collaborating with youth in a wide range of communities, Thorkildsen details the trajectory of adolescents’ development―from a primarily self-oriented perspective to beliefs about and participation in local and global activities. Focused especially on the potential of schools for catalyzing this development, this volume details youth’s affirmations and critiques of educational practices, and uses these evaluations to illustrate adolescents’ readiness to fulfill leadership responsibilities. Written for scholars, students, and professionals seeking to understand how adolescents construe their social worlds, Adolescents’ Self-Discovery in Groups makes a powerful case for group interaction being central to adolescent development.

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge

Grounded in investigations conducted over the past 25 years, Adolescents’ Self-Discovery in Groups demonstrates how adolescents can become more active in society based on how they form, maintain, and evaluate groups. By collaborating with youth in a wide range of communities, Thorkildsen details the trajectory of adolescents’ development―from a primarily self-oriented perspective to beliefs about and participation in local and global activities. Focused especially on the potential of schools for catalyzing this development, this volume details youth’s affirmations and critiques of educational practices, and uses these evaluations to illustrate adolescents’ readiness to fulfill leadership responsibilities. Written for scholars, students, and professionals seeking to understand how adolescents construe their social worlds, Adolescents’ Self-Discovery in Groups makes a powerful case for group interaction being central to adolescent development.

Despite often simplistic, black-and-white portrayals of good and evil, children and adolescents face complicated moral issues that can raise more questions than answers. Becoming aware of what constitutes morality is only the first step in determining a course of action, identifying and avoiding problems, and building communities that nurture morality. Young people learn to define and respond to moral dilemmas by interacting with and observing numerous sources. They acquire knowledge from family members, teachers, church leaders, peers, and members of neighborhood organizations. Raising themes of cultural pluralism, responsibility, complexity, affectivity, and practicality, Nurturing Morality addresses such issues as: - Definitions of morality that link past and current debates, enabling a more thorough understanding of moral functioning. - Personal responsibilities and impediments to moral functioning. - How societal structures can facilitate or inhibit moral agency and development. - The importance of acknowledging the common good as well as individual accomplishments. - Nurturing morality through wisdom. Drawing from a wide range of independent research programs, Nurturing Morality makes clear that most forms of human interaction are laden with moral content. It highlights thorny and complex moral questions that cannot be resolved by simple adherence to moral rules. And on the basis of empirically grounded findings, contributors to this volume provide recommendations for how adults can offer valuable guidance to young people learning to negotiate life in a global society. For clinicians, researchers, and students, Nurturing Morality provides much-needed insight and advice on young people’s moral development.

Nurturing Morality (Issues in Children's and Families' Lives)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

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Motivation and the Struggle to Learn: Responding to Fractured Experience

Fundamentals of Measurement in Applied Research

Nurturing Morality (Issues in Children's and Families' Lives, 5)

Adolescents' Self-Discovery in Groups

Adolescents' Self-Discovery in Groups

Nurturing Morality (Issues in Children's and Families' Lives)