ERIC Number: EJ1212589
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Publication Date: 2019-Feb
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New Insights on Young Peoples' Motivation in Lower Secondary Education in Denmark
Pless, Mette; Katznelson, Noemi
Qualitative Research in Education, v8 n1 p60-88 Feb 2019
In this article we explore and develop the understanding of young people's motives for (non)participation in lower secondary education. Based on a two-year study dominated by qualitative and explorative methods, we combine a focus on young peoples' motives and goal orientations with a socio-cultural (and social constructivist) understanding of motivation/learning (Wenger, 1998; Wertsch, 1994). This combination allows us to explore the dynamic complexity of pupils' motives for participation in school and look into how motivation is produced in the interplay between individual goals and motives and the learning climate within the school context (Ames, 1992; Dowson & McInerney, 2003; Maehr & Zusho, 2009; Jackson, 2006; Lemos, 2001). In the article, we identify key motivational orientations as they unfold in the social and learning processes that take place in the learning contexts young people are part of. As a mean to synthesise and highlight the complexities at play we introduce a situated model that visualises our results.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Goal Orientation, Student Motivation, Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Secondary Education, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Denmark
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