Educational Psychology Reader: The Art and Science of How People Learn is a collage of educational psychology¿s specializations and research-based reflections. As a discipline, educational psychology is reinventing itself from its early and almost exclusive identification with psychometrics and taxonomy-styled classifications to a dynamic and multicultural collection of conversations concerning language acquisition, socially mediated learning, diverse learning modalities, motivation, the affective domain, brain-based learning, the role of ecology in increasing achievement, and many other complimentary dimensions of how people learn. Many of the top names in the field are included in this volume, providing daunting evidence of the range and intellectual rigor of the field of educational psychology at this historic juncture. This book is ideal for adoption in a variety of undergraduate and graduate-level classrooms. It will also prove to be an invaluable reference book for library collections.

The Editor: Greg S. Goodman is Assistant Professor of Education at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include school psychology, educational psychology, distance learning, and how people learn.

Contents: Greg S. Goodman: Critical Thinking: How Good Questions Affect Classrooms ¿ Greg S. Goodman: Coming to a Critical Constructivism: Roots and Branches ¿ Joe L. Kincheloe: Beyond Reductionism: Difference, Criticality, and Multilogicality in the Bricolage and Postformalism ¿ Dengting Boyanton: Behaviorism and Its Effect upon Learning in the Schools ¿ Russell A. Barkley: School Interventions for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Where to from Here? ¿ Paul Beare/Colleen Torgerson/Kelly Dubois-Gerchak: A Positive Procedure to Increase Compliance in the General Education Classroom for a Student with Serious Emotional Disorders ¿ David Weber: The Limitations of a Behavioral Approach in Most Educational Settings ¿ Susan Jean Mayer: Dewey¿s Dynamic Integration of Vygotsky and Piaget ¿ David Jardine: On the Origins of Constructivism: The Kantian Ancestry of Jean Piaget¿s Genetic Epistemology ¿ David Jardine: Jean Piaget and the Origins of Intelligence: A Return to «Life Itself» ¿ Cathrene Connery/Christina Curran: A Cultural-Historical Teacher Starts the School Year: A Novel Perspective on Teaching and Learning ¿ Jeff Duncan-Andrade: To Study Is a Revolutionary Duty ¿ Herb Kohl: Eating, Drinking, and Acting: The Magic of Freire ¿ Binbin Jiang: English Language Learners: Understanding Their Needs ¿ Chris Vang: The Psycho-Social Dimensions of Multicultural Education ¿ Patricia Kolencik: Affective and Motivational Factors for Learning and Achievement ¿ Barry J. Zimmerman: Self-Efficacy: An Essential Motive to Learn ¿ Laurie B. Hanich/Sandra Deemer: Teaching Educational Psychology Online: An Examination of Student Motivation and Learning in a Graduate Course ¿ Kathleen Murphy: Motivation and Reading: Focus on Content Literacy ¿ Julia Ellis/Susan Fitzsimmons/Jan Small-McGinley: Encouraging the Discouraged: Students¿ Views for Elementary Classrooms ¿ Laurie B. Hanich: Using Student Interviews to Understand Theories of Motivation ¿ Carol Lee: The Centrality of Culture to the Scientific Study of Learning and Development: How an Ecological Framework in Educational Research Facilitates Civic Responsibility ¿ Floyd Beachum/Carlos McCray: Through the Fire: How Pretext Impacts the Context of African American Educational Experiences ¿ Floyd Beachum/Carlos McCray: Dealing with Cultural Collision in Urban Schools: What Pre-Service Educators Should Know ¿ Anthony A. Pittman: Understanding Educational Psychology: A Case Study Approach ¿ Suzanne Gallagher/Greg S. Goodman: Creating a Classroom Community Culture for Learning ¿ Julia Ellis: Researching Children¿s Place and Space ¿ Sheryl Smith-Gilman/Teresa Strong-Wilson/Julia Ellis: Envisioning the Environment as the Third Teacher: Moving Theory into Practice ¿ Julia Ellis: The Importance of Attending to Children and Place ¿ Tamar Jacobson: Teacher and Family Relationships ¿ Barbara Thayer-Bacon: Personal and Social Relations in Education ¿ Cris Mayo: Relations Are Difficult ¿ Susan J. Lenski/Micki M. Caskey: Using the Lesson Study Approach to Plan for Student Learning ¿ Jianping Shen/Jinzhou Zheng/Sue Poppink: Open Lessons: A Practice to Develop a Learning Community for Teachers ¿ Jianping Shen/Sue Poppink/Yunhuo Cui/Guorui Fan: Lesson Planning: A Practice of Professional Responsibility and Development ¿ Suzanne Gallagher: Toward a Poststructuralist Analysis ¿ Suzanne Gallagher: Disciplining the Discipline ¿ Sandra A. Deemer: Using Action Research Methodology to Unite Theory and Practice ¿ Mary Hollowell/Donna Moye: Therapeutic Art, Poetry, and Personal Essay: Old and New Prescriptions