Building Autonomous Learners Perspectives from Research and Practice using Self-Determination Theory /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Liu, Woon Chia (Editor), Wang, John Chee Keng (Editor), Ryan, Richard M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Education.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Educational Psychology.

This edited work presents a collection of papers on motivation research in education around the globe. Pursuing a uniquely international approach, it also features selected research studies conducted in Singapore under the auspices of the Motivation in Educational Research Lab, National Institute of...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Understanding Motivation in Education: Theoretical and Practical considerations
• Chapter 2 Optimizing students' Motivation in the era of Testing and Pressure: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective
• Chapter 3 The Dualistic model of Passion: Theory, research, and implications for the field of Education
• Chapter 4 Towards a more systematic study of the dark side of Student Motivation: Antecedents and consequences of teachers' controlling behaviours
• Chapter 5 How can we create better learning contexts for children? Promoting students' autonomous motivation as a way to foster enhanced educational outcomes
• Chapter 6 Teachers' motivation in the classroom
• Chapter 7 Autonomy-Supportive teaching: What it is, How to do it
• Chapter 8 An instruction sequence promoting autonomous motivation for coping with challenging learning subjects
• Chapter 9 Parental involvement and Children's academic motivation and achievement
• Chapter 10 Parental influence and students' outcomes and well-being
• Chapter 11 Creating an Autonomy-Supportive Physical Education (PE) learning environment
• Chapter 12 Can being Autonomy-Supportive in teaching improve students' self-regulation and performance? Chapter 13 Translating motivational theory into application of Information Technology in the classroom
• Chapter 14 Focus on competing for performance or mastering new knowledge? Insights from discovering the relations between classroom goal structures and students' learning in Singapore secondary schools
• Chapter 15 Promoting Mastery-Approach goals to support the success of the 'Teach Less Learn More' educational initiatives.