Academic Motivation and the Culture of School in Childhood and Adolescence
Cynthia Hudley and Adele E. Gottfried
Abstract
Decades of research indicate the important connections among academic motivation and achievement, social relationships, and school culture. However, much of this research has been conducted in homogenous American schools serving middle class, average achieving, Anglo-student populations. This book argues that school culture is a reflection of the society in which the school is embedded and comprises various aspects, including individualism, competition, cultural stereotypes, and extrinsically guided values and rewards. Chapters address three specific conceptual questions: How do differences in ... More
Decades of research indicate the important connections among academic motivation and achievement, social relationships, and school culture. However, much of this research has been conducted in homogenous American schools serving middle class, average achieving, Anglo-student populations. This book argues that school culture is a reflection of the society in which the school is embedded and comprises various aspects, including individualism, competition, cultural stereotypes, and extrinsically guided values and rewards. Chapters address three specific conceptual questions: How do differences in academic motivation for diverse groups of students change over time? How do students' social cognitions influence their motivational processes and outcomes in school? And what has been done to enhance academic motivation? To answer this last question, the chapters describe empirically validated intervention programs for improving academic motivation in students from elementary school through college.
Keywords:
academic motivation,
academic achievement,
social relationships,
school culture,
individualism,
competition,
cultural stereotypes
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2008 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195326819 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2012 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326819.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Cynthia Hudley, editor
University of California, Santa Barbara
Adele E. Gottfried, editor
California State University, Northridge
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