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Shows educators and administrators how they can fill their classrooms with students who are eager for success and motivated to learn. The learner-centered approach focuses on designing instruction that is sensitive to the individual students needs, abilities, and interests rather than rigidly tied to the subject matter.<P>

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<P><FONT SIZE="2"><STRONG><EM>Spark students' motivation to learn and succeed beyond the formal years of schooling!</EM></STRONG> <BR><BR>Every student enrolled in school can learn; however, the capacity for learning varies among students. As a result of a two-decade-long interest, author Margaret A. Theobald provides teachers with ideas and insights that can help support and motivate middle and high school students to do their best work. This unique book, which defines motivation, contains basic theories and a wealth of useful practical procedures. Easy to pick up, its simple approach and format will help school leaders apply and modify motivational strategies for all students while recognizing that each student is unique. <BR><BR>Written, developed, designed, and presented to teachers and school leaders for immediate application, this handbook provides:</FONT></P><FONT SIZE="2"> </FONT><UL><FONT SIZE="2"></FONT><LI><FONT SIZE="2">General frameworks for thinking about motivation</FONT></LI><FONT SIZE="2"></FONT><LI><FONT SIZE="2">Hundreds of strategies from middle and high school educators who have succeeded in motivating students to learn</FONT></LI><FONT SIZE="2"></FONT><LI><FONT SIZE="2">A deeper understanding of the needs of students as those needs relate to students' motivational levels</FONT></LI><FONT SIZE="2"></FONT></UL><FONT SIZE="2"></FONT><P><FONT SIZE="2"><STRONG><EM>Increasing Student Motivation</EM></STRONG> fills an important niche in professional educational literature and will prove to be an invaluable resource for all educators who work with students and are concerned about how to help them maximize their potential.</FONT></P><FONT SIZE="2"></FONT>

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Geen departs from the conventional approach to human motivation--going beyond the traditional survey of biological, behavioral, and scial bases of motivation--to capture the student's attention and focus on the problems of motivations with which we live every day. Starting from the premise that most human behavior is social behavior, Geen establishes a fundamental model of the motivational process by integrating the concepts of motive, situation, and incentive within a framework of how people set goals for themselves.

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This unique book provides a comprehensive study of emotion within a modern evolutionary perspective. Motivation and emotion are presented within an integrated approach that assumes biological and psychological causes, including evolution, neuroscience, endocrinology, human development, and culture. <I>Motivation and Emotion</I></B></U> Presents a wealth of modern evidence integrating neuroscience and endocrinology into the study of motivation and emotion. The book provides a variety of photographs of facial expressions showing emotions from people of diverse cultures as well as nonhuman primates. It also discusses modern interactive explanations for specific behaviors, rather than dull, historical perspectives. For example, human affect is explained as a response to social events and stress, resulting in psychophysiological consequences. An essential reference for any professional in sociology or psychology.

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With a new evolutionary theme, Petri's book covers the biological, behavioral, and cognitive explanations for human motivation. The advantages and drawbacks to each of these explanations are presented, allowing students to draw their own conclusions. Students want to know why they behave the way they do. To help students understand the processes that activate their behavior, Petri uses examples drawn from such contemporary topics as sexual behavior, aggression, eating disorders, and obesity to capture and keep students interested. To help students master and retain the information covered, this edition builds upon the text's simple and direct language with expanded pedagogy?including preview questions at the beginning of every chapter, end of chapter summaries, key terms, Web links, and suggestions for further reading.

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This experimentally-oriented book provides a critical examination of research and theory with a topical approach. It covers a broad range of motivational concepts from both human and animal theory and research, with an emphasis on the biological bases of motivation. Chapter topics include the nature of motivation theory; species-specific behaviors; eating and taste; thirst, temperature regulation, addiction, and reproduction; drive and activation; rewards as both reinforcers and incentives; escape, fear, avoidance, and punishment; frustration, anxiety, stress, and coping; aggression and altruism; personality and individual differences; attitudes and cognitive consistency; interpersonal attraction; and applications of motivation theory. For individuals interested in the motivation of humans and animals.

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<P>This book sheds light on how people work-why sometimes they function well and sometimes they behave in ways that are self-defeating or destructive. Toward this end, Carol Dweck presents her groundbreaking research on adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational patterns, showing: how these patterns originate in people's self-theories; their consequences for the person-for achievement, social relationships, and emotional well-being; their consequences for society, from issues of human potential to stereotyping and intergroup relations; the experiences that create them.<br><br>Throughout, Dweck shows how examining people's self-theories illuminates basic issues of human motivation, social cognition, personality, the self, mental health, and development.<br><br></P>

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<P>&quot;I think David C. Edwards does a very good job of covering the material. The writing style is consistently clear, direct and interesting. Research findings are clearly presented and clearly explained.&quot; </P><P>--Ronald R. Ulm, Salisbury State University</P><P>How do culture and other people affect our eating habits? Is love "natural" to humans? Is anger always at the root of aggressive behaviors? Aimed at unraveling the mysteries of human motivation and emotion, author David C. Edwards explores the evolutionary, physiological, social, and cognitive factors that shape each motivational behavior from anger to sex to work and play. Topically organized, Edwards provides readers with the best of contemporary findings in each motivational behavior and summarizes how past research in the field contributed to current thought. To facilitate the reader's comprehension of the material, each chapter begins with a concise overview statement and ends with a personal summary. Within the chapter, the author highlights material of special importance and concludes major sections with a summary. Each chapter ends with a set of questions that will help a student reader prepare for an exam. </P>

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MOTIVATION integrates a wide range of topics in psychology, elucidating the fundamental role of motivation in both animal and human conduct. The book looks at the way motivation functions, how it interacts with other important variables, and what motivation as a construct contributes to the scientific understanding of behavior.

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HANDBOOK OF MOTIVATION AND COGNITION, Volume 1, challenged the prevailing hot/cold, either/or dichotomy, and proposed instead the "warm look"-- a synergistic approach to the roles of "hot" motivations and "cold" cognitions in the production of behavior. Highly acclaimed as a groundbreaking work, Contemporary Psychology called it, "an extremely valuable contribution to the field....Unique as a handbook...rather than summarizing an existing body of knowledge, it attempts to define and shape an emerging field." Volume 2 continues to emphasize both theory and research on the motivation-cognition interface. However, the range of approaches has been widened to include clinical, developmental, political, and cognitive psychological as well as the social and personality perspectives prominent in the first volume

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In a book that challenges authoritarian thinking about motivation, a distinguished social psychologist offers an alternative to current reward/punishment theory, which, far from anarchy, espouses our ordered, internalized sense of freedom, responsibility, and commitment.

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<I>Motivation Matters </I>provides school administrators, K-12 teachers, and teacher educators innovative strategies and tools for school change. With a focus on instructional practice that enhances motivation among diverse learners, this important resource helps schools to become more intentional about inspired teaching and learning. <BR> This book gives educators at all levels the means to become strong instructional leaders and school renewal facilitators. It provides coherent professional development plans that are easily customized to any learning context. <BR> Margery B. Ginsberg- coauthor of the highly acclaimed <I>Creating Highly Motivating Classrooms for All Students</I>- elaborates on numerous strategies from that book. She offers five themes for implementing instructionally focused change <ul> <li> A shared language for teaching and learning <li> Approaches to strengthen adult collaboration <li> <B> </B>Innovative ways to collect and use data <li> Ways to strengthen parent and community participation, and <li> A school identity that goes beyond conventional vision statements <P> </ul>

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<P><FONT SIZE="2"><STRONG><EM>Spark students' motivation to learn and succeed beyond the formal years of schooling!</EM></STRONG> <BR><BR>Every student enrolled in school can learn; however, the capacity for learning varies among students. As a result of a two-decade-long interest, author Margaret A. Theobald provides teachers with ideas and insights that can help support and motivate middle and high school students to do their best work. This unique book, which defines motivation, contains basic theories and a wealth of useful practical procedures. Easy to pick up, its simple approach and format will help school leaders apply and modify motivational strategies for all students while recognizing that each student is unique. <BR><BR>Written, developed, designed, and presented to teachers and school leaders for immediate application, this handbook provides:</FONT></P><FONT SIZE="2"> </FONT><UL><FONT SIZE="2"></FONT><LI><FONT SIZE="2">General frameworks for thinking about motivation</FONT></LI><FONT SIZE="2"></FONT><LI><FONT SIZE="2">Hundreds of strategies from middle and high school educators who have succeeded in motivating students to learn</FONT></LI><FONT SIZE="2"></FONT><LI><FONT SIZE="2">A deeper understanding of the needs of students as those needs relate to students' motivational levels</FONT></LI><FONT SIZE="2"></FONT></UL><FONT SIZE="2"></FONT><P><FONT SIZE="2"><STRONG><EM>Increasing Student Motivation</EM></STRONG> fills an important niche in professional educational literature and will prove to be an invaluable resource for all educators who work with students and are concerned about how to help them maximize their potential.</FONT></P><FONT SIZE="2"></FONT>