Research on Sociocultural Influences on Motivation and Learning
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- Description
- Contents
This volume covers topics including: translation issues in cross-cultural research; African American teachers for African American students; the social mediation of metacognition; and cross-cultural similarities and differences in affective meaning of achievement.
Foreword; Martin L. Maehr.
- Introduction.
- Chapter 1. Bridging the Sociocultural Divide: An Encouragement for Researchers to Consider a Wheel of Research Perspective; Shawn Van Etten and Dennis M. McInerney.
- Part I. Focus On Identity.
- Chapter 2. The Self in Cultural Context: Meaning And Valence; David Yun Dai.
- Chapter 3. Ethnic Identity and the Sociocultural Playing Field: Choices Made by Ethnically Mixed Adolescents in Hawaii; William L. Greene.
- Chapter 4. Self-Schema, Motivation and Learning: A Cross-Cultural Comparison; Chi-hung Ng and Peter Renshaw.
- Chapter 5. Students At Risk: Exploring Identity from a Sociocultural Perspective; Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur and Pedro R. Portes.
- Chapter 6. Person-Environment Fit in Higher Education: How Good Is the Fit for Indigenous Students?; Gerard J. Fogarty and Colin White.
- Part II. Focus On Families And Communities.
- Chapter 7. The Social Construction of Interest in a Learning Community; Kimberley Pressick-Kilborn and Richard Walker.
- Chapter 8. Motivation to Improve Adult Education in Under-Educated Adults in Rural Communities; Eric M. Anderman, Jane Jensen, Diana Haleman, and Beth Goldstein.
- Chapter 9. Teacher Immediacy and Student Motivation; Nanette Potee.
- Chapter 10. The Social Mediation of Metacognition; Gregory P. Thomas.
- Chapter 11. Motivation and African-American Youth: Exploring Assumptions Of Some Contemporary Motivation Theories; Tamera B. Murdock, Megan Brooks Bolch, George Dent, & Natalie Hale Wilcox.
- Chapter 12. Communities Sharing Research: An American Indian Case Study; Dawn Iwamoto and Henry Radda.
- Part III. Focus On Methods.
- Chapter 13. Cross-Cultural Differences in Affective Meaning of Achievement: A Semantic Differential Study; Farideh Salili and Rumjahn Hoosain.
- Chapter 14. Motivation and Learning Strategies: A Cross-Cultural Perspective; David Watkins, Dennis McInerney, Clement Lee, Adebowale Akande, and Murari Regmi.
- Chapter 15. Translation Issues in Cross-Cultural Research: Review and Recommendations;Teresa García Duncan.
- Author Biographies.