Monday, October 14, 2013

Role of Parents in Supporting Their Children's Achievements- 10/15 @ noon at UMass

The UMass Center for Research on Families presents Jacquelynne Eccles, Ph.D., McKeachie/Pintrich Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Michigan, her lecture on “The Role of Parents in Supporting Their Children's Achievements” will be this Tuesday, October 15th at 12:00 p.m in the 
Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union at UMass. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Eccles has conducted research on a wide variety of topics including gender-role socialization, teacher expectancies, classroom influences on student motivation, and social development in the family and school context. Her work has been honored by several prestigious awards including the Kurt Lewin Memorial Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. She is a member of the National Academy of Education a World Scholar at the University of London, and Visiting Professor at the University of Tubingen, Germany. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
For more information contact: http://www.umass.edu/family

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