Re: [xmca] FW: Special Price $20 per copy of Culture, Self, and, Motivation Essays in Honor of Martin L. Maehr

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

I agree re chat and would include the semio-logical as co-constituitive of
the praxiological, Tony.

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote:

> I just ordered the book below for the $20 (telephone-only) promotional
> price.
>
> A search for books related to Martin L. Maehr led me to Motivation and
> Action edited by Jutta and Heinz Heckhausen.
>
> This work presents itself as a comprehensive work on motivation and action.
> But from the table of contents, it looks like "motivation" is being
> conceptualized as an entirely psychological matter, albeit influenced by
> social, cultural, and situational factors.
>
> I am bothered that in education things like motivation are reduced to the
> psychological.
>
> As a semiotician, I see many things being treated as psycho-logical when
> they are more fundamentally semio-logical; i.e., they are determined not by
> the logos of the human psyche, but by the logos of semiosis. (It surprises
> me how a linguist like Jim Gee is so ready to explain things as matters of
> cognitive psychology, when they are more fundamentally determined by
> principles of linguistic semi-ology).
>
>
>
> As for "Motivation and Action," it seems to me that CHAT clearly recognizes
> motivation as a matter of the logos of action and activity, or
> "praxio-logical," and not reducible to the psycho-logical (unless
> "psychology" is stretched so wide as to include, say, Geisteswissenschaften
> or les sciences humaines, in which case it seems to me that such
> "psychology" would have to abandon the claims that it presumes as a special
> discipline).
>
>
>
> What do you think?
>
>
>
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> Essays
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>
>
>
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> Culture, Self, and, Motivation
> Essays in Honor of Martin L. Maehr
>
> Edited by Avi Kaplan, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
> Stuart A. Karabenick, University of Michigan
> Elisabeth De Groot, University of Michigan
>
> The authors of the chapters in this volume-past and present collaborators
> of
> Marty Maehr, and a few of his former graduate students along the years-are
> motivational researchers who conduct research using diverse methods and
> perspectives, and in different parts of the world. All, however, see their
> intellectual roots in Marty's theoretical and empirical work. The chapters
> in this book are divided into two sections: Motivation and Self and Culture
> and Motivation. Clearly, the distinctions between these two sections are
> very blurry, as they are in Marty's work. And yet, when the authors were
> asked to contribute their chapters, the research questions they addressed
> seemed to have formed two foci, with perso! nal motivation and
> socio-cultural processes alternating as the core versus the background in
> the two sections.
>
> TABLE OF CONTENTS:
> Introduction: Culture, Self, and Motivation. The Contribution of Martin L.
> Maehr to the Fields of Achievement Motivation and Educational Psychology,
> Avi Kaplan, Stuart A. Karabenick, and Elisabeth DeGroot. Martin L. Maehr:
> Brief Bio. PART I: MOTIVATION AND SELF. Continuing Motivation Revisited,
> Eric M. Anderman and Jennifer A. Weber. Applying Personal Investment Theory
> to Better Understand Student Development, Larry A. Braskamp. Motivation in
> Sport and Physical Activity: An Achievement Goal Interpretation, Glyn C.
> Roberts, Frank Abrahamsen, and P. Nicolas Lemyre. Meaning-Making and
> Motivation: A Dynamic Model, Avi Kaplan, Hanoch Flum, and Keren Kemelman.
> Achievement Goals in the Context of the Hierarchical Model of
> Approach-Avoidance Achievement Motivation, Ron Friedman, Arlen C. Moller,
> James W. Fryer, Ista Zahn, Wilbert ! Law, Ryan D. Acuff, Daniela Niesta,
> Kou
> Murayama, Angelika M. Meier, Beate Jelstad, and Andrew J. Elliot. Marty
> Maehr's Contributions to Research in Pasteur's Quadrant: The Mathematics
> and
> Science Partnership-Motivation Assessment Program, Stuart A. Karabenick,
> Bridget V. Dever, Juliane Blazevski, AnneMarie M. Conley, Jeanne M.
> Friedel,
> Melissa C. Gilbert, and Lauren E. Musu. PART II: CULTURE AND MOTIVATION.
> School Culture Matters for Teachers' and Students' Achievement Goals,
> Lennia
> Matos, Willy Lens, and Maarten Vansteenkiste. A Model of Culture and
> Achievement Behavior, Farideh Salili. Achievement Motivation in
> Cross-Cultural Context: Application of Personal Investment Theory in
> Educational Settings, Dennis M. McInerney and Gregory Arief D. Liem. The
> Cultural Situatedness of Motivation, Julianne C. Turner and Helen Patrick.
> The Contributions of Martin L. Maehr to the Study of Cultural Influences on
> Achievement Motivation, Tim Urdan. Vita: Marti! n L. Maehr. Author Index.
> Subject Index.
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