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Motivation in Education : Theory, Research, and Applications
ISBN: 9780023956218 | 0023956216
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/1996
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Informing readers about major motivational theories and related research, this thought-provoking book includes an overview of metatheoretical perspectives, expectancy and efficacy beliefs, attribution theory, social congnitive theory, goal theory, intrinsic motivation, values and affect, and social-conceptual influences such as schools, classrooms, and families. Offering intensive conceptual details of different theories, it describes and applies the most recent advances in motivation theory and research to a classroom context. Sketches metaphorical and metatheoretical approach to motivation, providing a way to organzie theories of motivation at a conceptual level. Strongly emphasizes expectancies and efficacy central constructs in motivation. For educators.
| Introduction to the Study of Motivation | p. 1 |
| Historical and Metatheoretical Perspectives on Motivation | p. 23 |
| The Role of Expectancy and Self-Efficacy Beliefs | p. 67 |
| Attributional Processes | p. 105 |
| Other Social Cognitive Processes | p. 153 |
| The Role of Goals and Goal Orientation | p. 199 |
| Intrinsic Motivation | p. 255 |
| The Role of Values, Interest, and Affect | p.... MORE |
| Teacher and Classroom Influences | p. 325 |
| School Culture and Organization | p. 367 |
| References | p. 395 |
| Name Index | p. 423 |
| Subject Index | p. 429 |
| About the Authors | p. 433 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
