Amy Kaplan
Biographic Data
| ID | 87952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Kaplan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaplan |
| SIGNATURE | KAPLAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2898-0085 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 391 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
“Hope Your Sons Will Become a Dragon, and Hope Your Daughters Will Become a Phoenix”: Exploring Parenting Identity and Practices among Chinese Immigrant Mothers in the United States
Situated Motivation and Action: A Complex Dynamic Systems Perspective on a Preservice Teacher’s Action While Facilitating a Discussion
Researchers have increasingly investigated the relations between teacher motivation and teacher actions; however, like most motivation research, teacher motivation studies commonly focus on independent relations between motivational and action constructs. Such studies reveal little about the complex motivational processes that underlie teachers’ situated behavior. The current study investigated the motivational processes undergirding one preservi…
A complex dynamic systems perspective on the roles of culture, context, and identity in psychoeducational interventions
Classroom strategies for navigating emotions during controversial discussions
Designing for diverse museum visitors’ identity exploration around inventiveness
Introduction This paper describes an initial phase of research to inform the design of Change YOUR Game—an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH) that aims to promote visitors’ inventiveness in STEM and in other life domains. The exhibition’s content focused on the history of inventions and innovations in sports. The research was framed by the Dynamic Systems Model of Role Identity (DSMRI) and by a set of design …
White preservice teachers facilitating African American history discussions: Tensions of identity in practice
Does Shared Decision-Making for Prostate Cancer Screening Among African American Men Happen? It Depends on Who You Ask
Understanding Health Priorities, Behaviors, and Service Utilization Among Brazilian Immigrant Women: Implications for Designing Community-Based Interventions
Becoming a social studies teacher: An integrative systems perspective on identity content, structure, and processes
The origins, evolution, and future directions of achievement goal theory
Examining micro‐change within and among science teachers' identities: A multiple case study
Whereas science teachers often express initial enthusiasm about the student‐centered, reform‐oriented instructional strategies they encounter in professional development (PD), they rarely adopt them in practice. One possible obstacle is a mismatch between these strategies and teachers' beliefs about what is possible and desirable in their particular teaching contexts. In the current study, we investigated changes in teachers' beliefs about practi…
The Role of Context in Educational RCT Findings: A Call to Redefine “Evidence-Based Practice”
In this commentary, we complement other constructive critiques of educational randomized control trials (RCTs) by calling attention to the commonly ignored role of context in causal mechanisms undergirding educational phenomena. We argue that evidence for the central role of context in causal mechanisms challenges the assumption that RCT findings can be uncritically generalized across settings. Anchoring our argument with an example from our own …
A complex dynamic systems perspective on teacher learning and identity formation: An instrumental case
Scholars have called for new conceptualisations of teachers’ learning that capture the complex, contextualised, and dynamic nature of professional growth. In this article, we describe the Dynamic Systems Model of Role Identity (DSMRI) that portrays teacher learning as inseparable from the complex and dynamic processes by which teachers form their professional identities. The model depicts theoretical and procedural learning about teaching as inte…
Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance
How did a Jewish state come to resonate profoundly with Americans in the twentieth century? Since WWII, Israel's identity has been entangled with America's belief in its own exceptionalism. Turning a critical eye on the two nations' turbulent history together, Amy Kaplan unearths the roots of controversies that may well divide them in the future
Disability identity and use of services among college students with psychiatric disabilities
With the increasing number of undergraduate students with psychiatric disabilities enrolling in college, and the disproportionately high attrition rates in this group, the current study aimed to understand these students’ experiences and identify barriers that they face in higher education contexts. Specifically, whereas past research suggests that students’ endorsement of a “disability identity” impacts the proactive utilization of valuable acad…
High school students’ academic causal attributions in the cultural-political context of the Arab school system in Israel
While motivation is commonly interpreted as an individual student’s characteristic, motivational perceptions and beliefs, such as causal attributions of success and failure, are embedded in cultural meanings and contextual practices. The current study aimed to investigate causal attributions among Arab high school students in Israel and to interpret them in the light of their cultural-political context. Two hundred and five 11th-grade Arab studen…
A complex dynamic systems perspective on identity and its development: The dynamic systems model of role identity
Current prominent models of identity face challenges in bridging across divergent perspectives and apparent dichotomies such as personal or social-collective, conscious or unconscious, and epigenetic or discursive-relational, and affording pursuit of research questions that allows integrative answers. This article presents a coherent theoretical perspective on the integrative nature of identity and its developmental mechanisms. Adopting the conte…
Theory-based assessment in environmental education: A tool for formative evaluation
This article reports on the development of a theory-informed assessment instrument for use in evaluating environmental education programs. The instrument involves coding learners’ brief reflective writing on five established educational and social psychological constructs that correspond to five important goals of environmental education: promoting learners’ perceived relevance of environmental content, sense of personal and collective responsibi…
The role of identity development, values, and costs in college STEM retention.
The current short-term longitudinal study investigated the role of college students’ identity development and motivational beliefs in predicting their chemistry achievement and intentions to leave science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) majors. We collected 4 waves of data over 1 semester from 363 diverse undergraduate STEM students enrolled in a chemistry lab course. The results of analyses that examined the reciprocal relations among …
Positive classroom motivational environments: Convergence between mastery goal structure and classroom social climate.
In a series of 4 studies we investigated the relations of mastery goal structure and 4 dimensions of the classroom social climate (teacher academic support, teacher emotional support, classroom mutual respect, task-related interaction). We conducted multidimensional scaling with separate adolescent samples that differed considerably (i.e., by racial and demographic characteristics, grade level, and educational contexts). Studies 1, 2, and 3 (Ns =…
Transnational Melville
Identified versus introjected approach and introjected avoidance motivations in school and in sports: The limited benefits of self-worth strivings.
On the basis of self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000), the authors examined whether 2 different types of introjected motivation-an avoidant type aimed at avoiding low self-worth and an approach type aimed at attaining high self-worth-are both associated with a less positive pattern of correlates relative to identified motivation-acting because one identifies with the value of the action. Two studies focusing on the academic and sports dom…
Religious Exploration in a Modern World: The Case of Modern-Orthodox Jews in Israel
In moderate religious communities, adolescents and young adults are increasingly exposed to modern ideas and lifestyles and thus may face a potential tension between religion and modernity. The current study investigated the exploration processes of one hundred and four Jewish Modern Orthodox higher education students in Israel. The participants responded to semi-open-ended questionnaires regarding their way of coping with religious issues. A the…
Early adolescents' perceptions of the classroom social environment, motivational beliefs, and engagement.
This research examined whether 5th-grade students ’ (N 602) perceptions of the classroom social environment (teacher support, promotion of mutual respect, promotion of task-related interaction, student support) were related to their engagement in the classroom (self-regulation and task-related interaction) and whether those relations were mediated by personal motivational beliefs (mastery goals, academic and social efficacy). Teacher support, pro…
The Contributions and Prospects of Goal Orientation Theory
Where Is Guantanamo
This essay argues that Guantánamo lies at the heart of the American Empire. The legal status of the prisoners there must be understood in the context of an imperial history that dates back to the U.S. occupation of Cuba in 1898. This history explains how the U.S. Naval Station, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has become an ambiguous space, both inside and outside national and juridical borders and how this ambiguity reinforces the harsh penal regime. The e…
The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture
The United States has always imagined that its identity as a nation is insulated from violent interventions abroad, as if a line between domestic and foreign affairs could be neatly drawn. Yet this book argues that such a distinction, so obviously impracticable in our own global era, has been illusory at least since the war with Mexico in the mid-19th century and the later wars against Spain, Cuba and the Philippines. In this book, Amy Kaplan sho…
Cultures of United States imperialism
Violent Belongings and the Question of Empire Today Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, Hartford, Connecticut, October 17, 2003
Urging American studies as a field to address the current international crisis, Kaplan analyzes the dramatic shift in contemporary public discourse from the denial to the embrace of the notion of the American Empire. She traces two dominant narratives, one that loudly champions U.S. military supremacy and another that reluctantly accepts the "white man's burden" as the last best cure of global anarchy, both of which take American exceptionalism t…
Homeland Insecurities: Reflections on Language and Space
Research Article| January 01 2003 Homeland Insecurities: Reflections on Language and Space Amy Kaplan Amy Kaplan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (85): 82–93. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2003-85-82 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Amy Kaplan; Homeland Insecurities: Reflections on Language and Space. Radical History Review 1 January 2003; 2003…
Manifest Domesticity
A complex dynamic systems perspective on identity and its development: The dynamic systems model of role identity
Current prominent models of identity face challenges in bridging across divergent perspectives and apparent dichotomies such as personal or social-collective, conscious or unconscious, and epigenetic or discursive-relational, and affording pursuit of research questions that allows integrative answers. This article presents a coherent theoretical perspective on the integrative nature of identity and its developmental mechanisms. Adopting the conte…
Early Adolescents' Achievement Goals, Social Status, and Attitudes Towards Cooperation with Peers
Classroom goal structure and student disruptive behaviour
Background: Achievement goal theory suggests that the emphasis on mastery and performance goals in the classroom (the classroom goal structure) is related to students' patterns of learning and behaviour. This theory can offer a preventative holistic approach for dealing with students' disruptive behaviour.Aims: The present study investigates whether the goal structure in the classroom is related to the incidence of disruptive behaviour.Sample and…
Rhetoric as the Contextual Manipulation of Self and Nonself
This article highlights an important mediating process in rhetoric: the situational reconstruction of collective self-boundaries of speaker and audience. We illustrate this process by a rhetorical case study. Using a psychorhetorical analysis of a missionary speech that was given by a Jewish ultra-orthodox preacher to a Jewish Israeli nonorthodox audience, we point to the rhetorical context markers -the rhetorical strategies that construct a disc…
The Role of Context in Educational RCT Findings: A Call to Redefine “Evidence-Based Practice”
In this commentary, we complement other constructive critiques of educational randomized control trials (RCTs) by calling attention to the commonly ignored role of context in causal mechanisms undergirding educational phenomena. We argue that evidence for the central role of context in causal mechanisms challenges the assumption that RCT findings can be uncritically generalized across settings. Anchoring our argument with an example from our own …
Jewish-Arab relations in Israel: Perceptions, emotions, and attitudes of university students of education
This study reports on the perceptions, emotions and attitudes of 172 Jewish and Arab undergraduate and graduate students of education concerning their own national identity, the intergroup relations between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and the desired political solution for the Arab minority in Israel. Against the background of the continuously changing political situation that involves advances and drawbacks in the peace process between Israel and …
Identity and Political Stability in an Ethnically Diverse State: A Study of Bedouin Arab Youth in Israel
This study deals with the relationship between the state of Israel and its Arab minority, with a particular focus on the Bedouin Arabs of the Negev. This relationship has been problematic from the outset, given the discrepancy between the corporate national identity of Israel as a Jewish state, and the actual composition of its population (a 17 per cent non-Jewish minority). The Bedouin are one of the segments of the Arab population that the gove…
The Change in Middle School Students’ Achievement Goals in Mathematics Over Time
Enhancing the Motivation of African American Students: An Achievement Goal Theory Perspective
Avi Kaplan, Martin L. Maehr, Enhancing the Motivation of African American Students: An Achievement Goal Theory Perspective, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 68, No. 1, Preparing Students for the New Millenium: Exploring Factors That Contribute to the Successful Education of African American Students (Winter, 1999), pp. 23-41
Classroom strategies for navigating emotions during controversial discussions
Becoming a social studies teacher: An integrative systems perspective on identity content, structure, and processes
High school students’ academic causal attributions in the cultural-political context of the Arab school system in Israel
While motivation is commonly interpreted as an individual student’s characteristic, motivational perceptions and beliefs, such as causal attributions of success and failure, are embedded in cultural meanings and contextual practices. The current study aimed to investigate causal attributions among Arab high school students in Israel and to interpret them in the light of their cultural-political context. Two hundred and five 11th-grade Arab studen…
Theory-based assessment in environmental education: A tool for formative evaluation
This article reports on the development of a theory-informed assessment instrument for use in evaluating environmental education programs. The instrument involves coding learners’ brief reflective writing on five established educational and social psychological constructs that correspond to five important goals of environmental education: promoting learners’ perceived relevance of environmental content, sense of personal and collective responsibi…
The tenacious grasp of American exceptionalism A response to Djelal Kadir, 'Defending America against its devotees
This response endorses the call for international perspectives on American Studies, while it explores some of the potential pitfalls in the way that Professor Kadir formulates this project: the danger of reproducing the nationalist divisions between inside and outside and reifying the international; the problem of restoring a white male canon; and the trap of an exceptionalism paradigm, which criticizes the USA on the grounds of not living up to …
White preservice teachers facilitating African American history discussions: Tensions of identity in practice
Gender, Culture, and Empire: Postcolonial U.S. Feminist Scholarship
In Praise of the Consciousness Industry
The Social Construction of American Realism
Naturalism with a Difference
Edith Wharton's Profession of Authorship
Naturalism with a Difference
Language, Race, and Social Class in Howell's America
The Burden of History
The Social Construction of American Realism
redefines American realism as a genre more engaged with a society in flux than with one merely reflective of the status quo. She reads realistic narrative as a symbolic act of imagining and controlling the social upheavals of early modern capitalism, particularly class conflict and the development of mass culture. Brilliant analyses of works by Howells, Wharton, and Dreiser illuminate the narrative process by which realism constructs a social wor…
The Social Construction of American Realism
The Social Construction of American Realism
Realism, Naturalism, Modernism: Three Revaluations
Cultures of United States imperialism
Commentary: Domesticating Foreign Policy
One significant contribution of cultural studies has been to analyze critically the formation of academic disciplines, both as discourses and as institutions. This tendency has emerged in part from the need to study “culture,” in its myriad definitions, within a new interdisciplinary context that goes beyond the traditional approach of adding the insights, materials, and methodologies of one discrete field to another. Instead, scholars draw on th…
Cultures of United States Imperialism
Cultures of United States Imperialism
In Praise of the Consciousness Industry
Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 . Gail Bederman American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender . Robyn Wiegman
The Development and Validation of Scales Assessing Students' Achievement Goal Orientations
Manifest Domesticity
Achievement Goals and Student Well-Being
Enhancing the Motivation of African American Students: An Achievement Goal Theory Perspective
Avi Kaplan, Martin L. Maehr, Enhancing the Motivation of African American Students: An Achievement Goal Theory Perspective, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 68, No. 1, Preparing Students for the New Millenium: Exploring Factors That Contribute to the Successful Education of African American Students (Winter, 1999), pp. 23-41
Identity and Political Stability in an Ethnically Diverse State: A Study of Bedouin Arab Youth in Israel
This study deals with the relationship between the state of Israel and its Arab minority, with a particular focus on the Bedouin Arabs of the Negev. This relationship has been problematic from the outset, given the discrepancy between the corporate national identity of Israel as a Jewish state, and the actual composition of its population (a 17 per cent non-Jewish minority). The Bedouin are one of the segments of the Arab population that the gove…
Performance-approach goals: Good for what, for whom, under what circumstances, and at what cost?
Some researchers have called for a reconceptualization of goal theory that acknowledges the positive effects of performance-approach goals. The authors of the present article review studies that indicate that performance-approach goals are associated with adaptive patterns of learning but note that, in other studies, these goals have been unrelated or negatively related to the same outcomes. There is a need to consider for whom and under what cir…
Jewish-Arab relations in Israel: Perceptions, emotions, and attitudes of university students of education
This study reports on the perceptions, emotions and attitudes of 172 Jewish and Arab undergraduate and graduate students of education concerning their own national identity, the intergroup relations between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and the desired political solution for the Arab minority in Israel. Against the background of the continuously changing political situation that involves advances and drawbacks in the peace process between Israel and …
Manifest Domesticity
Rhetoric as the Contextual Manipulation of Self and Nonself
This article highlights an important mediating process in rhetoric: the situational reconstruction of collective self-boundaries of speaker and audience. We illustrate this process by a rhetorical case study. Using a psychorhetorical analysis of a missionary speech that was given by a Jewish ultra-orthodox preacher to a Jewish Israeli nonorthodox audience, we point to the rhetorical context markers -the rhetorical strategies that construct a disc…
Interpretations of the past and expectations for the future among Israeli and Palestinian youth
This study was developed by a group of Israeli and Palestinian researchers for the purpose of examining social knowledge of young people in the conflicted region of the Middle East. The article examines the relations between measures of interpretations of the past (perceptions of legitimacy and emotional reactions toward the historical "narratives" of Israelis and Palestinians) and measures of expectations of the collective future, as reflected i…
Classroom goal structure and student disruptive behaviour
Background: Achievement goal theory suggests that the emphasis on mastery and performance goals in the classroom (the classroom goal structure) is related to students' patterns of learning and behaviour. This theory can offer a preventative holistic approach for dealing with students' disruptive behaviour.Aims: The present study investigates whether the goal structure in the classroom is related to the incidence of disruptive behaviour.Sample and…
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