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

["David H Kirshner" <dkirsh@lsu.edu>]

This is a crucial question that plays in, I think, to why semiotics
often is appropriated as a theoretical tool for extending and developing
a psychological frame rather than initiating a new framing. 
David


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Tony:
Do you eliminate also the person, the subjectivity when you eliminate
Psychology as a discipline?  I accept mediation from the point of view
of
Dialectic and a multidisciplinary approach, or better, transdisiplinary
approach, but to eliminate Psychology is very strong for me.
Armando
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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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Elisabeth De Groot, University of Michigan

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Maehr:
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Eric M. Anderman and Jennifer A. Weber. Applying Personal Investment
Theory
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in
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Roberts, Frank Abrahamsen, and P. Nicolas Lemyre. Meaning-Making and
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School Culture Matters for Teachers' and Students' Achievement Goals,
Lennia
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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
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