1st Edition
Help Seeking in Academic Settings Goals, Groups, and Contexts
Biography
Karabenick, Stuart A.; Newman, Richard S.
"This thorough, insightful, and voluminous work is valuable for anyone interested in a crash course on help seeking, including understanding old traditions, innovative studies, and new questions. The work of Karabenick and Newman may be particularly helpful for teachers and teachers in training as well as for graduate students and educational psychologists."
—PsycCRITIQUES"Help seeking can be a useful strategic tool of effective learners....The kind of assistance the help-seeker asks for as well as the kind of help that is given can have a good deal of impact upon the seeker’s ability to not only solve an immediate problem but also transfer that knowledge to future problem situations....The audience for this book includes both students and teachers. We need teachers to help students understand that help seeking is not a sign of weakness but rather an important learning strategy....Thinking about help seeking and help giving--becoming more aware of our own use or non-use of these universal skills--can better our lives."
—Wilbert McKeachie
From the Foreword“... takes the research on help-seeking in new directions.”
—Judith Meece
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill






