Foundations for Learning

The focus of Foundations for Learning is on academic adjustment with personal development issues seamlessly integrated into the academic emphasis theme of 'claiming an education' and taking responsibility for one's own education. Addresses both the attitudinal variables and personality traits that affect college achievement like locus of control, conceptions of intelligence, and intellectual curiosity in relation to specific study-related behaviors such as text annotation and active listening. At its core, this text is based on the psychology of adjustment. Students are pushed to consider how each mindset, perception, and attitude connects with their skill sets, and how one influences the other. It offers an acute awareness of first-year student needs, an intellectual approach, and a tight framework.

New to this edition:

• First Year Diaries: Adjustment Reflections - journal entry chunks from actual students enrolled in a first-year experience course link readers to key chapter concepts. (In each chapter).
• Adjust Your Mindset and Adjust Your Strategies sections - serves to emphasize the distinction between attitudes and behaviors, which helps students consider their own evolving position. (In every chapter).
• Broadened audience - Now includes examples and student narratives originating in four-year institutions as well as two-year colleges, commuters, and adult learners. (In each chapter).  
• Additional visual aids - These include a sample syllabus, a breakdown of variations of the 8-8-8 formula, and a graphic representation of Freuds theory of personality, among others to reinforce difficult concepts. (In each chapter).
• Attention to emerging technologies - Addresses the influences of technology that educators are increasingly aware of such as course management systems (ie. - Blackboard, Desire to Learn, etc.), Facebook, Twitter, and texting is having on student learning. (Chapter 2).
• New Sections/emphases - The Planning, Prioritizing, and Procrastination and Developing Malleable Mindsets and Metacognitive Skills chapters have undergone extensive revision. (Chapters 4, 5).

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