Educational Psychology—Limitations and Possibilities

Social political movements, 159
Social practices, 732
Social reality, 550
Social regulation, 7–9
Social relations: in discourse
structure, 501; psyche and,
632; in standpoint theory,
114–15
Social reproduction, 580–82
Social sciences: complexity
science research and, 464–65;
qualitative research of, 498
Social standards, 680
Social structures: academic
setting and, 682; bricoleurs
aware of, 951–52; critical
rhetoric transforming, 763–64
Social studies class, 391
Social Studies for the
Twenty-First Century (Zevin),
927
Social system: educational
system interconnected with,
730; objective knowledge and,
541
Social system design: enaction
and, 731–32; in instructional
design, 729–30; situated
cognition intersecting with,
732; in stakeholder
communities, 734
Social theory: complexity and,
948–49; dialogue in, 525–26;
ethnographic researcher and,
943; Lave interested in, 148
Social transformation, 165
Social value: ability/capacity in,
821; assessing, 820–22;
standardized testing marking,
818–20, 822
Social wellness, 343
Society: centralized power
enslaving, 99; cultural
exchanges in, 523–24;
education lifeblood of, 72–73;
education transforming,
527–28; femininity
constructed in, 678–79;
individuals relationship with,
8, 157; power redistribution in,
750; racially diverse people in,
665–66; racist/sexist, 704–5;
sciences transforming, 414;
social standards in, 680;
stratified assessment of, 820;
technology/consumerism
dominating, 336–37; women’s
appearance/behavior in, 679
Sociocultural theory: activities
in, 374; approach of, 609;
conditions of, 757–58; context
of, 740; core principles of,
242; critique of, 762–63;
curriculum developed with,
244; human cognition
approached by, 149–50;
learning contribution of, 527;
practices of, 788; rules of,
378–79; situated learning and,
150–51; of Vygotsky, 241
Sociogenesis, 399
Sociohistorical context, 862–63
Sociological theory, 522
Sociopolitical construction of
self, 123
Sociopolitical issues, 941
Sociopsychological ideas, 85
Sociopsychological inquiry
modes, 938
Sociopsychological researchers,
953
Socratic wisdom, 628
Solidarity, 555, 583
Solitude, 318
Soul, 629–30, 847–48, 852;
creativity adding to, 849–50;
enactivist approach searching
for, 853; searching for, 850;
spiritual life expressed
through, 849
South Africa: apartheid
emerging in, 365; educational
psychology and, 371;
education system in, 364–65,
370; FP education philosophy
in, 367–68; schools special
needs in, 369
South America, 890
Soweto riots, 369
Speaker, 721, 723
Spearman, Charles Edward, 808
Special Theory of Relativity, 884
Species evolution, 109–10
Speech act theory, 501, 526
Sperry, Roger, 44
“Spiral of effects,” 268
Index 997
Spirituality: awareness opened
up through, 965–66;
classrooms occluding, 661;
cultural aspects of, 418, 424;
cultural identity as, 419–21; in
education, 961; educators
influenced by, 421; indigenous
knowledge in, 659–60;
intelligence and, 82, 803;
internalized oppression
unlearned through, 422–23;
learning enhanced through,
660–61; multiple identities
mediating with, 425; positive
cultural identity and, 419–20;
of postformalism, 966; of
postformal thinking, 965;
psychological health improved
by, 466–67; as reaching
beyond present state, 960;
resistance to, 660; strength
from, 707; summarizing, 420;
teaching needing, 905
Spiritual life, 849
Spring, Joe, 127
Sputnik launch, 58, 811–12
SQ3R. See Survey, Question,
Read, Recite and Review
Stack, Michelle, 33
Stage theory, 194
Stakeholder: based changes, 733;
communities, 734; design,
730–31
Standardized testing, 515, 962;
diverse student characteristics
not measured by, 770; elitist
knowledge and, 64;
Eurocentric values tested
with, 65; measuring
something with, 814; poor
students inferior from, 901;
postmodern teachers
questioning, 455; predictive
capacity of, 30–31; racist
cultural ideas basis of, 249;
rise of, 805; score
interpretations of, 815; social
value marked by, 818–20, 822;
student achievement measured
by, 824–25; student success
and, 228–29; teach-and-test
models using, 290; Thorndike
creating, 68; vertical