Academic Motivation and the Culture of School in Childhood and Adolescence
Series: Child Development in Cultural Context;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 August 2008
- ISBN 9780195326819
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 160x236x17 mm
- Weight 624 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 40 line illustrations 0
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Short description:
Schools, as one form of complex organizational settings, are regulated by often invisible expectations, understandings, and values that comprise the culture of the institutions. This volume will extend the already substantial understanding of academic motivation by moving beyond important and well studied relational and personal variables to an examination of school culture and motivation. Prevailing normative expectations for students are constructed and guided by cultural values and shape student motivation and achievement in powerful ways. This value system, however, is often left invisible in motivational analyses. Chapters in this volume challenge the prevailing discourse that equates ethnic minority with culture and places the cultural assumptions guiding schools outside the sphere of cultural inquiry.
MoreLong description:
Decades of reserach 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 edited volume will argue that school culture is a reflection of the society in which the school is embedded and comprises various aspects, including induvidualism, competition, cultural stereotypes, and extrinsically guided values and rewards. They 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 contributers describe empirically validated intervention programs for improving academic motivation in students from elementary school through college.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Competence Motivation in Head Start: An Early Childhood Link to Learning
Low academic intrinsic motivation as a risk factor for adverse educational outcomes: A longitudinal study from early childhood through early adulthood
Essential Solidarities for Understanding Latino Adolescents' Moral and Academic Engagement
Sources of influence on the college goals, sexual behavior, and childbearing attitdes of Latina girls in alternative high schools
Cultural Continuity between Home and School as a Predictor of Student Motivation: What We Know, What We Need to Learn, and Implications for Practice
Cultural Mistrust, Academic Outcome Expectations, and Outcome Values Among African American Adolescent Males
Responding to self-threats: Understanding stigma in the academic domain
Cultures in contrast: Understanding the influence of school culture on student engagement
Scholar Identity and Academic Achievement in African American Adolescents: Is there a connection?
Peer Assisted Learning: An Academic Strategy for Enhancing Motivation Among Diverse Students
Academic Motivation and the Culture of School
Social Competence, Socio-Cultural Contexts, and School Success: A Commentary
