Explores the critical role that classroom educators play in supporting student motivation throughout the transition from high school to college.

Offers a new view of pedagogical practices to psychoanalysts interested in pedagogy.

Brings the transformative approaches of transpersonal psychology to research in the human sciences and humanities.

Explores how Darwin’s theory of human nature can inform educational philosophy.

A startling reading of the educational enterprise through a psychoanalytic lens.

An authoritative and provocative discussion of the key issues surrounding grade inflation and its possible effects on academic excellence.

Presents the perspectives of contemporary college students on their lives and educations.

A fresh look at study abroad programs on American college and university campuses.

Brings together current research in philosophy, cognitive science, and education to uncover and criticize the traditional assumptions of how and why we should learn through imitation.

Research on the impact of social class variables on experiences of adolescents as they transition to middle school.

Explores the contributions dreams can make to our private and public lives, and outlines methods for safe and effective dream work.

Resolves the fundamental debate between cognitivists and social constructionists concerning the metaphysics of human psychology, and offers new insights into therapy, education, and creativity.

A study of love and hate in learning and an argument for why educators might begin with consideration of these psychical dynamics when interpreting the conflictive dreams of education.

This book looks at the impact of play on child development.

This is the first book to take a multicultural perspective on the psychology of women, including the issues of ethnicity, religion, age, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, and physical abilities.

This is a book on the therapeutic quality of music. Musicians, philosophers, music therapists, and others discuss their experiences.

This book approaches professional inquiry in psychology from a perspective that integrates research and practice and prepares students for the diversity of methods employed in the field. It examines a ...

This book is about individuals who have made dramatic changes in their lives. In the beginning, these people were living as patients or victims of circumstance. In the end, they were living as agents, ...

Recent research identifies increased parent involvement in education as a promising method to bolster student achievement. Statistics show that while many traditional white, middle class families have ...

This edited volume extends existing discussions among philosophers of science, cognitive psychologists, and educational researchers on the the restructuring of scientific knowledge and the domain of science ...

By redefining current theories of competence motivation and sex-role identity, this work offers a powerful reconceptualiztion of what it means to be a competent woman in today's society. Analyses of case ...

When and how is the self acquired and what characterizes its development and change over the life span? What are the implications of using different methodologies to study the self with different age ...

Students who know how to tap their own resources have a better chance at success. The skills necessary to do this can be learned and it is the primary purpose of The Art of Learning to take them through ...

Most educators might agree that the hidden agendas on class, race, and gender, to a large extent, condition and determine the form and the content of schooling. But, how much of this situation is due ...