Academic Motivation and the Culture of School in Childhood and Adolescence(English, Hardcover, unknown)

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Academic Motivation and the Culture of School in Childhood and Adolescence(English, Hardcover, unknown) is written by unknown and published by Oxford University Press Inc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195326814 (ISBN 10) and 9780195326819 (ISBN 13).

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.