Optimal learning environments to promote student engagement

Optimal Learning Environments to Promote Student Engagement analyzes the psychological, social, and academic phenomena comprising engagement, framing it as critical to learning and development. Drawing on positive psychology, flow studies, and theories of motivation, the book conceptualizes engageme...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shernoff, David J. (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Series:Advancing responsible adolescent development.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009762734806719
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Towards Optimal Learning Environments in Schools
  • 2. Aims of Education Revisited (Einstein’s E = MC2 of Education)
  • 3. The Nature Engagement in Schools
  • 4. Measuring Student Engagement in High School Classrooms and What We Have
  • 5. Engagement as an Individual Trait and its Relationship to Achievement
  • 6. Connecting to “The How” of Classroom Engagement: Instruction and Optimal
  • 7. Connecting to “The Who”: The Primacy of Supportive
  • 8.  Connecting to “The What”: Engaging Approaches to Traditional Subject Matter
  • 9. Engagement Beyond the Core Academic Subjects
  • 10. Private School Models and The Case of Montessori Schools
  • 11. Alternative Public School Models
  • 12. Learning from Research on Youth Engagement During Out-of-School Time
  • 13. Model After-School Programs
  • 14. Technological Innovations on the Horizon
  • 15. Re-engineering the Schools of Tomorrow: Towards Community Sponsorship.