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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? > > > > From: IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc. [mailto:iap@infoagepub.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:25 AM > To: twhitson@UDel.Edu > Subject: Special Price $20 per copy of Culture, Self, and, Motivation > Essays > in Honor of Martin L. Maehr > > > > Information Age Publishing Inc, is pleased to announce a Special Sale of > $20.00 per book including shipping (within the US, $25.00 rest of the > world) > on the following book. > > Call today while supplies last 1-866-754-9125: > > 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. 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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. > > Order Online at http://infoagepub.com/index.php?id=9 > <http://infoagepub.com/index.php?id=9&p=p49dc02431a944> &p=p49dc02431a944 > Paperback: 978-1-60752-107-5 > Web Price: $31.99 (Reg. $39.99) > > Hardcover: 978-1-60752-108-2 > Web Price: $59.19 (Reg. $73.99) > > > Cordially, > George F. 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