
Manisha NagpalDuquesne University · Department of Psychology
Manisha Nagpal
Doctor of Philosophy
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Emotional intelligence is established to predict success in leadership effectiveness in various contexts and has been linked to personality factors. This paper introduces Dharma Life Program, a novel approach to improving emotional intelligence by targeting maladaptive personality traits and triggering neuroplasticity through the use of a smart-pho...
Argumentative writing has long been considered an essential skill for disciplinary learning. For researchers and curriculum developers to develop ecologically valid instructional approaches to argumentative writing, a pivotal prerequisite is the understanding of how teachers use various instructional methods in tandem to teach different argumentati...
This study reports the preliminary efficacy of an innovative school‐based, technology‐enhanced social – emotional learning program called “mindfulness‐based collaborative social reasoning” (MBCSR) for middle school students. MBCSR was developed by an interdisciplinary team of educational psychologists, mindfulness researchers, computer scientists,...
Human science (e.g., phenomenology, psychoanalysis) and natural science (e.g., quantitative psychology, neuroscience) approaches to the mind and brain take radically different epistemological stances. Human science prioritizes subjective experience – the mind as a subject with lived experience. Natural science approaches the mind as an object that...
Background
Adolescence is a critical period for social emotional development. The need to focus on social emotional competencies is exacerbated by the COVID 19 pandemic.
Objective
This systematic review paper provides a collective account of mindfulness interventions conducted exclusively with adolescent students in an educational setting (mean ag...
Teachers and students construct dialogic spaces that mediate classroom learning. Dialogic space involves multiple voices constructed between individuals, within individuals, or from texts/media (Wegerif, 2007). Supported by technological tools, classroom dialogic spaces can expand from traditional face-to-face or person-text interactions to online...
The purpose of this study was to examine whether justifying one’s own social knowledge (moral, societal, psychological) toward complex social-moral issues through collaborative argumentation was associated with the improvement of social perspective taking for elementary students. A total of 129 5th graders (52% female, Mage = 10.98) from six classr...
This qualitative study presents 27 students’ insights about four teachers’ implementation of an immersive Native American history curricular unit designed to equip students with digital skills to critically navigate complex, polarizing social issues. The Digital Civic Learning (DCL) curriculum used Google Suite and Google Classroom or Schoology to...
The current study examined the development of early adolescents’ social perspective taking (SPT) through collaborative small-group discussions. A total of 250 fifth-graders were assigned to three conditions, Collaborative Social Reasoning (CSR) discussions, Read-Aloud (RA) and Regular Instruction (RI). SPT was assessed before and after the interven...
We studied the feasibility of an innovative blended learning curriculum for early adolescents intended to foster citizenship skills through collaborative dialogue. Our curriculum was implemented during the 2020-2021 academic year, which afforded an opportunity to study feasibility under constrained classroom contexts. We conducted qualitative analy...
Background:
Students form interpersonal and intrapersonal classroom social experiences with peers. While diverse intervention programmes have been developed, few have integrated social-emotional learning into academic activities to maximize the potential for learning and development.
Aims:
This study examined the effects of collaborative small-g...
The current study examined whether students’ social perspective taking (SPT) could be developed through small group argumentative discussions. A total of 250 fifth-grade students were assigned to three conditions: Collaborative Social Reasoning (CSR), Read Aloud (RA), and Regular Instruction (RI). Students’ SPT was assessed before and after the int...
I teach the psychological concept of motivation, the factors and theories behind it. I aim to help students realize how diversity (one’s gender, SES and race) influences one’s motivation. This chapter introduces an activity in which students are asked to draw/paint
their past experiences and family background (SES, race/ethnicity) to show how all o...
This comparative case study features two small groups of students engaging in
collaborative dialog about social issues. Based on social constructivist theories, the two
groups were compared across three major components of the small groups system:
social dynamics, intellectual collaboration, and teacher scaffolding. Our goal was to
holistically ana...
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We examined whether participating in in dialogic discussions led to improvement in students’ social knowledge. Fifth-grade students’ social reasoning was assessed before and after six weeks of discussions using an essay task. Poisson regressions with Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) showed that the amount of social knowledge generated during...
The current study examines the role of perceived parental pressure in students' academic performance by exploring test anxiety as a mediator in this relationship. A convenience sampling method was employed to select high school students (n=100) from two schools in Bangalore. Data was analyzed using the bootstrapping method of simple mediation. As p...