Kelvin Seifert: Home Page
Professor of Educational Administration, Foundations, & Psychology

University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2

Who I am, in brief:

I am a professor at the University of Manitoba. I teach educational psychology, early years education, and child development. These activities are described at the website for the Faculty of Education. That website also has a page with a picture of and further information about me.

My Curriculum Vitae (Updated December, 2004) My current professional interests and scholarship focus on peer relationships in teacher education, especially as these affect early childhood education or early years education. I also am interested in popular beliefs about gender and popular, taken-for-granted "theories" about children and childhood, and how all of these affect the education and welfare of children and teachers.

Among other professional activities, I am the editor of two refereed online journals. One is the Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy (or CJEAP, for short). CJEAP publishes occasional policy and research papers about current educational issues, especially from a Canadian perspective. The other journal is Teaching Educational Psychology (or TEP, for short). TEP is just getting launched as of December, 2004. It publishes research studies, book reviews, and policy-oriented papers related to educational psychology, its place in teacher education and in education in general.

A Sampling of Books That I Have Published:
Contemporary Educational Psychology (An online "textbook" about educational psychology hosted by Wikibooks, a sister project of Wikipedia. I drafted and posted most of the initial material. Since it is posted on a public wiki, however, some of the material has since been modified by other instructors of educational psychology.)

Chapter 1 of Educational Psychology, © 2004 by Kelvin Seifert. An earlier revision of this text was published by Houghton Mifflin (© 1999) under the title Constructing a Psychology of Teaching and Learning.

A Student-written Textbook that I Assist in Producing:
Educational_psychology (An online textbook about educational psychology written by my Bachelor of Education students as part of the course called "Psychology of Learning." The book is revised each year by the current year's students. The version posted here is the second edition. I serve as a sort of editor-in-chief and coach.)

A Blog about Open-Source Publishing in Educational Psychology:

Teaching Educational Psychology Open-Source As of summer, 2008, this blog is just getting started. I hope to add to it steadily in the coming months and years. Have a look and write a response!

 

Recent Articles:

Here are some articles that I wrote recently. All have been published in other forms elsewhere. They are all Copyright Kelvin Seifert in various years, so do not quote them or use them without crediting me and this webpage as the source. Over time, as time permits, I will post additional articles and materials.

Students' Content Priorities as Authors of Their Own Text about Educational Psychology (Topic: What if students wrote their own text about ed psych instead of buying a commerical textbook? This paper is a description of the first year of a multi-year project to explore this idea, and a discussion of its success and significance.)

Cognitive development and the education of young children. (Topic: A selective review of research cognitive development as it relates to the needs and priorities of early childhood teachers. Written from a perspective that is a mixture of activity theory, social constructivism, and Vygotskian ideas.)

How can we be ourselves when teaching? (Topic: The difficulties of feeling identified with early childhood teaching, compared to others identifying us as early childhood teachers.)

How helpful are cohorts in teacher education? (Topic: Assessments by education students of the merits and problems of organizing preservice teacher education around cohorts.)

Teaching ambiguity and its limits in educational psychology. (Topic: The "evocative" value of using stories and other narratives in ed psych, versus sticking to expository prose.)

Sociable Thinking:Cognitive Development in Early Childhood Education (Topic: In recent times, all cognitive theories, and not just Vygotskian or social-constructivist ones, have become socially based to some extent. This is a good thing for early childhood education.)

Is there a "best" wait time? (Topic: Describes a simple strategy for students taking educational psychology to use the Internet to explore the concept of "wait time.")

Nursery and Preschool Education (Topic: A review of the history, nature and purposes of nursery schools and preschools--written, believe it or not, in just 1500 words. The article is in press for A. Sroufe (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Development.)

School and Development (Topic: A review of the nature of schooling and how major school issues affect, and are affected by, human development. 1500 words. This article also is in press for A. Sroufe (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Development.)

Peer Cohorts in Teacher Education: A Missed Opportunity for Educational Psychology (Topic: An examination of how educational psychology as a field can assist students to understand peer relationships in preservice teacher education.)

 

Contacting me:

email: <seifert@ms.umanitoba.ca>
Phone: 1-204-474-9859.

FAX: 1-204-474-7564.

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