affective education

Seventeen essays discuss theory and research on reading motivation, including the role of affect in reading; student, teacher, and parent attitudes toward reading; motivation techniques; response to reading; and development of affective reading programs.

Offers advice to educators on how to develop, implement, and evaluate strategies for promoting social and emotional learning in students; describes the experiences of teachers throughout the country; and includes thirty-nine concise guidelines.

Provides resources for implementing social and emotional learning to support the mental health, behavior, and academic performance of students from kindergarten through high school, and includes examples and reproducibles.

Examines several aspects of social and emotional learning in middle and late childhood, as well as ways of utilizing and developing these intelligences in schools.

Examines discoveries in neuroscience on how the brain develops and on the link between cognition and emotion, looks at interactions between teachers and students that lead to accelerated reading and writing progress, and discusses the reasoning of expert teachers.