Optimal Learning Environments to Promote Student Engagement

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Shernoff, David J. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development,
• Θέματα: Psychology.; Teaching.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Social work.; Families.; Families > Social aspects.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Positive psychology.; Child and School Psychology.; Social Work.; Educational Psychology.; Positive Psychology.; Family.; Teaching and Teacher Education.

Optimal Learning Environments to Promote Student Engagement analyzes the psychological, social, and academic phenomena comprising engagement, framing it as critical to learning and development. Drawing on positive psychology, flow studies, and theories of motivation, the book conceptualizes engageme...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Towards Optimal Learning Environments in Schools
• 2. Aims of Education Revisited (Einstein’s E = MC2 of Education)
• 3. The Nature Engagement in Schools
• 4. Measuring Student Engagement in High School Classrooms and What We Have
• 5. Engagement as an Individual Trait and its Relationship to Achievement
• 6. Connecting to “The How” of Classroom Engagement: Instruction and Optimal
• 7. Connecting to “The Who”: The Primacy of Supportive
• 8.  Connecting to “The What”: Engaging Approaches to Traditional Subject Matter
• 9. Engagement Beyond the Core Academic Subjects
• 10. Private School Models and The Case of Montessori Schools
• 11. Alternative Public School Models
• 12. Learning from Research on Youth Engagement During Out-of-School Time
• 13. Model After-School Programs
• 14. Technological Innovations on the Horizon
• 15. Re-engineering the Schools of Tomorrow: Towards Community Sponsorship.