International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 3, Number 1, January 2009

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Book Review

Excerpt

Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning: Theory, Research, and Applications
Edited by Dale H. Schunk and Barry J. Zimmerman
(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2008)

Understanding self-regulated learning is essential in today’s academic and social world, and this handbook is a keeper for developers, faculty, and students. As learning moves through its various levels and depths, relevance is essential. Though teachers are trained in content, many are not supported in the dynamics of how to help students move toward the intrinsic or self-regulated end of the motivational continuum. Because it is impossible to separate successful learning from healthy development, learning is enhanced as students become in charge of their learning by being supported in autonomy as well as the development of academic competencies.

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Bio

Review by
Steven Fleisher
California State University, Channel Islands
Camarillo, California, USA
steven.fleisher@csuci.edu

I completed my B.S. and M.S. in Counseling from California State University, Los Angeles and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from California Graduate Institute. My research interests focus in educational psychology and self-regulated learning, and I work as a full-time lecturer at California State University, Channel Islands in the Psychology Program. I am published in the areas of academic standards and assessment, workforce development, self-regulated learning, and faculty development. My teaching appointments include courses in cognition and learning, developmental and introductory psychology, and counseling theories.

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