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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819522803321

Autore

Weinstein Rhona S

Titolo

Reaching higher : the power of expectations in schooling / / Rhona S. Weinstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2002

ISBN

0-674-04504-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Disciplina

370.154

Soggetti

Academic achievement

Expectation (Psychology)

Motivation in education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-329) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction I. Reframing the Debate: What Children Can Become 1. Colliding Expectations of Family and School 2. Turning Points in Research on Expectations: Toward an Ecological Paradigm 3. Revisiting Educational Self-Ful lling Prophecies II. Expectations in Classrooms: Through the Eyes of Students 4. Children Talk about Expectations for Achievement 5. Differences among Classroom Achievement Cultures 6. Children's Lives in Contrasting Classrooms 7. Achievement Histories of Vulnerability and Resilience III. Expectations in Systems: Through the Eyes of Educators 8. Changing a Strati ed School Culture 9. A School Culture for the Fullest Development 10. Achievement Cultures for University Faculty Conclusion References Acknowledgments Index

Sommario/riassunto

Even young children know what adults think of them. All too often, they live down to expectations, as well as up to them. This volume is about the context in which expectations play themselves out.