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.

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

An array of exciting new studies of child and adolescent development phenomena.

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

The first English translation of a seminal work in a therapeutic practice that holds increasing interest for Westerners.

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.

Argues that a primal wounding of the human spirit occurs in earliest human life that disrupts fundamental relationships and leads to anxiety, loneliness, and alienation; and shows how this wounding can be redeemed through therapy and through living one's life differently.

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 examines the varieties of self-exchange and factors that can influence it. It takes a much-needed step toward linking the concerns of the academic self-researcher and the consumer of research ...

In the First Country of Places explores how people's personal philosophies of nature shape their childhood memories and self-identities. Drawing upon written work and original interviews, the book describes ...

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 addresses the cross-cultural variations in the conceptions of face and facework from a multidisciplinary communication perspective. Facework represents one of the most important theoretical ...

Playing Favorites examines the ways in which gifted education disrupts the classroom community, deskills regular classroom teachers, limits their ability and willingness to meet individual needs, and ...

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 ...

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 ...