Motivation and the Struggle to Learn
Responding to Fractured Experience
Published on 9. August 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-205-33599-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Weight
494 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-205-33599-2 (9780205335992)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
1. Learning from Lives in Progress.
Types of Fractured Experience.
Needs and Orientations.
Expectations and Responsibilities.
Practicing a Language of Synthesis.
2. Little Boy On The Defensive.
Helpful Coaching or Facilitated Laziness?
Flashes of Connected Experience.
Coaching at Home.
Co-Constructing an Unsafe Place.
Seeking Friendship: A Means to an End or an End in Itself?
Lessons from Bruce's Life.
3. Quiet Bird.
Meet Quiet Bird.
Learning to Love Books.
Making Room for the Personal Awakens the Intellectual.
Quiet Bird Shares His Social Conscience.
Living an Integrated Life.
Lessons from David's Life.
4. Coordinating Needs & Expectations
Self-Determination in a World Where Obedience is Easier.
Competence in the Face of Continual Challenge.
Sustaining Strong Relationships.
Fracturing Experience in Multiple Contexts.
5. Enlightened Egocentrism.
Searching for Interests.
Searching for Meaningful Friendships.
Connected Experience in Competition with Discrete Skills.
Managing Anxiety among Caregivers.
Sustaining Honest Communication.
Lessons from Jack's Life.
6. A Fighting Spirit.
Identifying Earl's Interests.
Searching for the Limelight.
Discovering the Pain of Being Different
Literacy Among the "Bad Boys".
Tempering Aggression.
Impediments to Task Orientation.
Writing to Communicate.
Lessons from Earl's Life.
7. Responding To Fractured Experience.
Bruce's Future.
David's Future.
Jack's Future.
Earl's Future.
After "Earl's Future: The Conference We Need.
Our Future.
References.
Glossary.
Index.
Types of Fractured Experience.
Needs and Orientations.
Expectations and Responsibilities.
Practicing a Language of Synthesis.
2. Little Boy On The Defensive.
Helpful Coaching or Facilitated Laziness?
Flashes of Connected Experience.
Coaching at Home.
Co-Constructing an Unsafe Place.
Seeking Friendship: A Means to an End or an End in Itself?
Lessons from Bruce's Life.
3. Quiet Bird.
Meet Quiet Bird.
Learning to Love Books.
Making Room for the Personal Awakens the Intellectual.
Quiet Bird Shares His Social Conscience.
Living an Integrated Life.
Lessons from David's Life.
4. Coordinating Needs & Expectations
Self-Determination in a World Where Obedience is Easier.
Competence in the Face of Continual Challenge.
Sustaining Strong Relationships.
Fracturing Experience in Multiple Contexts.
5. Enlightened Egocentrism.
Searching for Interests.
Searching for Meaningful Friendships.
Connected Experience in Competition with Discrete Skills.
Managing Anxiety among Caregivers.
Sustaining Honest Communication.
Lessons from Jack's Life.
6. A Fighting Spirit.
Identifying Earl's Interests.
Searching for the Limelight.
Discovering the Pain of Being Different
Literacy Among the "Bad Boys".
Tempering Aggression.
Impediments to Task Orientation.
Writing to Communicate.
Lessons from Earl's Life.
7. Responding To Fractured Experience.
Bruce's Future.
David's Future.
Jack's Future.
Earl's Future.
After "Earl's Future: The Conference We Need.
Our Future.
References.
Glossary.
Index.