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Educational Psychology: Reflection for Action, Canadian Edition

Angela O'Donnell, Miranda D'Amico, Richard F. Schmid, Johnmarshall Reeve, Jeffrey Smith
October 2007, ©2007
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Today’s Canadian classrooms are complex, diverse and changing.  Teachers need to be able to use theories and research to think critically about the issues that they face, and take the appropriate action.  Guided through a four-step process — Reflection, Information Gathering, Decision-making, and Evaluation (RIDE) — preservice teachers using this text learn how to apply research to decision making in today’s Canadian classrooms.  Nationally renowned scholars and experts in educational theory, motivation, and assessment, the Canadian author team of Miranda D’Amico and Richard F. Schmid links theory and empirical findings to practical issues throughout the text.  Highly praised classroom cases, thought-provoking questions, and synthesizing activities provide preservice teachers with the skills they need to be reflective practitioners who can frame questions about their classrooms, think critically about the answers to those questions, and then take action.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introducing Educational Psychology and Reflective Practice

Part I: Development and Diversity
Chapter 2: Cognitive Development
Chapter 3: Social Development
Chapter 4: Individual Differences Among Learners
Chapter 5: Culture, Diversity, and Learning

Part II: Learning and Motivation
Chapter 6: Behavioural Learning Theory
Chapter 7: Cognitive Theories of Learning
Chapter 8: Social Constructivism and Learning in Community
Chapter 9: Motivation to Learn
Chapter 10: Engaging Students in Learning

Part III: Teaching and Managing and Assessing Learning
Chapter 11: Effective Teachers and the Process of Teaching
Chapter 12: Managing Learning in Classrooms
Chapter 13: Classroom Assessment

Hallmark Features
  • Reflection for Action Each chapter opens with descriptions of the kinds of classroom situations, dilemmas, and challenges that teachers encounter—guiding students to reflect critically on their work.
  • Integrated Content on Diversity and Special Needs.  Every effort has been made to fairly represent all aspects of Canada’s cultural richness as well as individual differences with integrated content throughout the text. Thus, preservice teachers will form a more realistic expectation of what difference among their students will mean for teaching on a day-to-day basis. 
  • Unique Chapter on Diversity Chapter 5 is entirely dedicated to the goal of introducing students to the diversity of pre-K–12 learners in Canadian classrooms.   While some content related to issues of diversity is distributed among all chapters, we include this separate chapter on diversity to provide a more comprehensive overview of just what culture and diversity mean in the Canadian classroom
  • Guiding Questions These questions encourage further reflection by tying important classroom issues to theories and empirical findings.
  • Taking It to the Classroom These guidelines help preservice teachers link theoretical principles to appropriate solutions for classroom problems.
  • Canadian Research into Practice World-class education research being produced in Canada is highlighted throughout the text, illustrating how it can be both applicable to the Canadian classroom as well as inform practice internationally.
  • What Kids Say and Do Consisting of samples of children's ideas and conversations, these serve as a watershed between theory and practice and as a venue for their integration.
  • Uncommon Sense This feature highlights situations/conclusions that are frequently believed by pre-service teachers but are not supported by research.
  • Reflection for Action Activities These activities consolidate theory, research findings, and other sources and model how to draw upon these to provide plausible answers to teaching questions.

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Educational Psychology: Reflection for Action, Canadian Edition
by Angela O'Donnell, Miranda D'Amico, Richard F. Schmid, Johnmarshall Reeve, Jeffrey Smith
ISBN 978-0-470-84032-0
October 2007, ©2007
Paperback, 584 pages
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