Promoting Motivation and Learning in Contexts: Sociocultural Perspectives on Educational Interventions (Research on Sociocultural Influences on Motivation and Learning) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1648021603 ISBN 13: 9781648021602

Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

The body of literature has pointed to the benefits of educational interventions in facilitating improvement in school motivation and, by implication, learning and achievement. However, it is now recognized that most extant motivation and learning enhancing intervention programs are grounded in Western motivational and learning perspectives, such as attribution, expectancy-value, implicit theories of intelligence, self-determination, and self-regulated learning theories. Further, empirical evidence for the positive impacts of these interventions seems to have primarily emerged from North American settings. The cross-cultural transferability and translatability of such educational interventions, however, are often assumed rather than critically assessed and adapted before their implementation in other cultures. In this volume, the editors invited scholars to re-assess their intervention work from a sociocultural lens. Regardless of the different theoretical perspectives and strategies they adopt in their interventions, these scholars are in unison on the importance of taking into account sociodemographic backgrounds of the students and sociocultural contexts of the interventions to optimize the benefits of such interventions. Indeed, placing culture at the heart of designing, implementing, and evaluating educational interventions could be a key not only to strengthen the effectiveness and efficacy of educational interventions, but also to ensure that students of a wider and more diverse range of educational and cultural backgrounds reap the benefits from such interventions. This volume constitutes the foundation towards a deeper and more systematic understanding of culturally relevant and responsive educational interventions.

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Gregory Arief D. Liem, Nanyang Technological University

Dennis M. McInerney, The Education University of Hong Kong

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1648021603
• ISBN 13: 9781648021602
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 390
• Editor: Liem Gregory Arief D., McInerney Dennis M.