The Will to Learn
A Guide for Motivating Young People
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- Author: Martin V. Covington, University of California, Berkeley
- Date Published: October 1998
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521556798
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This book introduces the basic principles of motivation as they apply to classroom learning and management in a readable, non-technical form. Covington argues against the popular notion that the problems existing in schools today stem primarily from a lack of student motivation. Instead, he asserts that students are motivated, sometimes even overly motivated, but often for the wrong reasons. Traditional teaching methods, including conventional grading procedures and an emphasis on competition, can contribute to student demoralization, and Covington identifies the ways in which students respond to misguided incentives. For some students, motivation is directed at avoiding failure by avoiding participation. For others, demoralization leads to withdrawal from an educational system that they believe to be irrelevant to their lives. Still other students are driven to prove their worth by outperforming fellow students. The book suggests practical, concrete ways that teachers can use classroom incentives to inspire a desire to learn.
Read more- Illustrates how and why traditional teaching methods contribute to student demoralization using the self-worth theory for which he is famous
- Features a series of exercises at end of each chapter that illustrate the principles of motivation introduced in the text, making them accessible to real practitioners
- Includes recent research on gender and ethnic differences in motivation and learning in schools, and provides suggestions for encouraging learning among exceptional students
- Covers in a more accessible way, material and issues raised in Making the Grade CUP (1992)
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- Date Published: October 1998
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521556798
- length: 332 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.499kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The future and its discontents
2. Motives as emotions
3. Motives as thoughts
4. Self-worth and the fear of failure
5. The competitive learning game
6. Motivational equity and the will to learn
7. Strategic thinking and the will to learn
8. An immodest proposal
9. Obstacles to change: the myths of competition
Epilogue
Appendixes
References
Author index
Subject index.
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