Reaching higher : the power of expectations in schooling / Rhona S. Weinstein.
Drawing upon a generation of research on self-fulfilling prophecies in education Reaching higher argues that our expectations of children are often too low. With compelling case studies, Weinstein shows that children typed early as "not very smart" can go on to accomplish far more than is...
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Table of Contents:
- Reframing the debate: what children can become
- Colliding expectations of family and school
- Turning points in research on expectations: toward an ecological paradigm
- Revisiting educational self-fulfilling prophecies
- Expectations in classrooms: through the eyes of students
- Children talk about expectations for achievement
- Differences among classroom achievement cultures
- Children's lives in contrasting classrooms
- Achievement histories of vulnerability and resilience
- Expectations in systems: through the eyes of educators
- Changing a stratified school culture
- A school culture for the fullest development
- Achievement cultures for university faculty.