Power of Anticipatory Images in Student Achievement

James M. Davy is Distinguished Practitioner in Residence Teaching in the School of Public Affairs and Administration and Director of the Center for Applied Appreciative Inquiry (CAAI) at Rutgers University, USA.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Positive Self-Concept Images within a Mutually Reinforcing Framework of Images.- 3. Anticipatory Career Images.- 4. Images of Better, More Financially Secure Life.- 5. The Image of Education and College as the Pathway to a Better Life.- 6. Bringing Anticipatory Images to Reality.- 7. The Anticipatory Competent Student.