1st Edition
Educational Psychology and Transformational Classrooms Research and Theory Meets Teaching and Learning
Educational Psychology and Transformational Classrooms uniquely positions teachers’ transformational experiences as central to understanding and implementing educational psychology research. Across three well-developed case studies using narrative inquiry methods, this volume explores moments of significant change, learning, and evolution in teaching and learning. Each case is followed by analyses from educational psychologists focusing on the three central actors in the learning experience—students, teacher, and context—and is then concluded with case authors’ responses to the analyses provided. Showcasing the holistic experience of teaching before unpacking it with theory and research, this book centers classroom life and posits educational psychology as an ideal and accessible lens for its examination.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Educational Psychology’s Response to Transformational Experiences in the Classroom
Helenrose Fives and Nicole Barnes
Chapter 2. The Year of Isaiah: Classrooms as Transformational Places of Learning
Jameelah Wright and Kit SaizdeLaMora
Chapter 3. What Happened To Isaiah?
Corinne G. Catalano
Chapter 4. Social Influences on the Year of Isaiah
Megan Parkinson
Chapter 5. Using Situated and Inquiry-Based Frameworks to Contextualize "The Year of Isaiah"
Nancy E. Perry, Charlotte A. Brenner, and Marissa Hall
Chapter 6. Response to the Analyses
Jameelah Wright and Kit SaizdeLaMora
Chapter 7. Sounding Out: From "a-u says /aw/" to Critical Conversations
Ashley Pollitt and Erin Riley-Lepo
Chapter 8. Using Constructivism and Racial Identity Development to explore Dear Martin
Tehia Starker Glass
Chapter 9. Ms. Pollitt: A Novice Teacher’s Varying and Interacting Experiences and Sources of Self-Efficacy Beliefs
Heather Haverbach
Chapter 10. Creating a Climate for Critical Consciousness Sounding Out: Contextual Analysis
Christy M. Byrd
Chapter 11. Case Author Response
Ashley Pollitt and Erin Riley-Lepo
Chapter 12. The Annex: A Place In Between
John Adamski and Stephen Tarsitano
Chapter 13. The Impact of Communal Learning on Students’ Sense of Belonging in The Annex
Tamika L. McElveen, Joanna N. Ali, Briana P. Green, and DeLeon L. Gray
Chapter 14. Developing Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness at The Annex
Paul A. Schutz, Elizabeth J. Pope, Heidi Legg Burross, and Taylor A. Roloff
Chapter 15. The Power of Context
Michael G. Ryan
Chapter 16. Response
John Adamski and Stephen Tarsitano
Biography
Helenrose Fives is Professor of Educational Foundations in the College of Education and Human Services at Montclair State University, USA.
Nicole Barnes is Associate Professor of Educational Foundations in the College of Education and Human Services at Montclair State University, USA.
