Education/Psychology Library, U.C. Berkeley

Interested in the adolescent brain? Please join us for a free book talk with one of the world's foremost authorities on his new book --Age of Opportunity: Lessons form the new science of adolescence.The book and the talk will explore the teenage brain’s potential for change, the elongation of adolescence as a developmental stage, and the implications for how we parent, educate, and understand young people.

Come by the EdPsych Library and you can work in style at this beautiful desk that was used by George Stratton -- founder of Berkeley's psychology lab in 1899.

Dr. Hinshaw will be discussing his new book The ADHD Explosion: Myths, Medication, Money and Today's Push for Achievement in the EdPsych Library on Thursday, April 17th at 4 pm. Free, fascinating and open to all!

It's great to see that Professor Stephen Hinshaw has a new book on ADHD-- hoping he will do a book talk in the Library! http://adhdexplosion.com/

The ADHD Explosion; A book by Stephen P. Hinshaw and Richard M. Scheffler Myths, Medication, Money, And Today’s Push For Performance. ADHD is one of the most controversial and misunderstood medical conditions today

Berkeley's new school Superintendent, Donald Evans, is a graduate of the GSE's LEEP program, and is looking for closer collaboration with UCB-- “You have one of the finest research‑based institutions right here, but it’s being underutilized in a way that we could be a leading district in the country,” he said. “How can you have this top university that has one of the top education departments, yet they’re not a major factor in terms of promoting top practices throughout the district?"

Professor Mendoza-Denton's research was included in the amicus brief for Fisher v. UT Austin, the case the Supreme Court decided this morning. The brief discusses at length the stereotype threat analysis and findings of Claude Steele, et al. https://www.box.com/s/20bbf715bb52380154ff

Fisher v. UT Brief of Social & Organizational Psychologists (FINAL).pdf - File Shared from Box

Interested in what's changed in the new DSM-5? We have access via Psychiatry Online, http://dsm.psychiatryonline.org/book.aspx?bookid=556

PsychiatryOnline | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition | Table of...

Curious about the education research being done by the Graduate School of Education at Berkeley? Come to Research Day! This Friday, 4/12, 9-3. EdPsych Library, Tolman Hall.

Want help organizing your citations and creating bibliographies? Come to one of our free drop-in workshops on your choice of citation manager -- Zotero, RefWorks or EndNote.

RefWorks - An Introduction
2/11/13 | Monday | 4-5 p.m.
Location: EDP Library

Zotero - An Introduction
2/15/13 | Friday | 11-12:00 a.m.
Location: EDP Library

Endnote - An Introduction
2/25/13 | Monday | 10:00 -11:00 a.m.
Location: EDP Library

Zotero - An Introduction
2/26/13 | Tuesday | 4-5 p.m.
Location: Room 201, Haviland

Racist "educational" board games

Sally Mack’s photographic exhibit At the Edges: a Wetlands Restoration Site is on display in the main reading room from now through May 31,2013. These beautiful photos show the intersection of water, plants and land. Sally also works as the Contracts and Grants Coordinator in the GSE – please come by and see her (other) work! http://www.sallymack.us/portfolio/wetlands/

Wetlands

Like e-books? We now have Oxford Scholarship Online for Psychology. 430 online books, access from anywhere -- as long as you are a UC Berkeley student, staff or faculty member and have the proxy server set up! Ask us if you have any questions or problems. http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/browse?t1=psychology

Psychology Oxford Scholarship Online Decades of research indicate the important connections among academic motivation and achievement, social relationships, and school culture. However, much of this research has been ... More