Innovations in Educational Psychology

David Preiss is an assistant professor at the Escuela de Psicología of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.Robert J. Sternberg, PhD, is Provost and Senior Vice President as well as Professor of Psychology at Oklahoma State University. His PhD is from Stanford and he holds 11 honorary doctorates. Sternberg is the author of roughly 1250 publications and has won two dozen awards. He is President-Elect of the Federation of Associations of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, President of the International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, and a former President of the American Psychological Association.

• Section I. Individual Differences in Human Development 1. Juxtaposing Psychological, Educational, and Genomic Sciences: An Emerging Platform for Interpreting Individual Differences in the Classroom 2. Dyslexia Deciphered Section II. Mind Meets the Classroom 3. Insights from Everyday Knowledge for Mathematics Education 4. Students’ Goals Influence Their Learning 5. Working With and Cultivating the Development of Interest, Self-Efficacy, and Self-Regulation Section III. Refining mind 6. Finding Young Paul Robesons: Exploring the Question of Creative Polymathy 7. How (Well Structured) Talk Builds the Mind 8. A Framework for Critical Thinking, Rational Thinking, and Intelligence Section IV. Cultural Aspects of Teaching 9. A Theory of Teaching 10. Discovering Culture in Learning, Development, and Education 11. Technology-Supported Face-to-Face Small Group Collaborative Formative Assessment and its Integration in the Classroom 12. Folk Pedagogy and Cultural Markers in Teaching: Three Illustrations from Chile Section V. Psychological perspectives on educational reform. 13. A New Role for Schools: Providing Child Care and Family Support Services 14. A thinking laboratory: Perspectives of prospective education 15. Academic Intelligence is not Enough! WICS: An Expanded Model for Effective Practice in School and in Later Life 16. The making of a discipline