Teachers' beliefs about student motivation: similarities and differences across cultures
Autor: | Neil R. Hufton, Julian Elliott, Leonid Illushin |
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Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Zdroj: | Comparative Education. 39:367-389 |
ISSN: | 1360-0486 0305-0068 |
DOI: | 10.1080/0305006032000134427 |
Popis: | The opinions of 108 teachers, about what influenced adolescent students' motivation and de-motivation, were sought through interview, at sites in each of the UK, the USA and Russia. Teachers' opinions in all three milieux were found to concur—on the positive effects of: parental interest and involvement and parental dissatisfaction; partnership with parents; teacher-student relations; symbolic and material rewards; grades and marks; success in learning—and on the negative effects of some leisure pursuits and of potential post-school unemployment. However, the meaning to be attached to such concurrence is problematised by contextualising apparent agreement within significantly differing local arrangements for, and expectations of: partnership with parents; continuity and duration of teacher-student-parent relations; the development of teachers' professional learning from experience; the deployment of praise and criticism; the pedagogical use of assessment; and the deployment of out-of-school time. Amplifyi... |
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