Can current theories of motivation inform practice in educational contexts?
Julian Elliott and Susan Nolen A series of three seminars sponsored by the British Psychological Society will explore the extent to which theories of motivation are able to offer adequate guidance to educational practitioners. The final seminar of the series takes place at Durham and will be concerned with an examination of the potential contribution to be made by motivation theory in considering the nature of psychological, as compared to sociological, explanations of the nature of disaffection with and disengagement from schooling. Explanations of disaffection regularly make reference to a range of sociocultural factors (e.g. social class, ethnicity, gender, parental employment experiences) as predictors of disaffection with school and likely withdrawal from the process of schooling. It is not clear that psychologically based motivation theories would be able to explain very adequately at present the processes that might be involved here. Julian Elliott (Durham University) will take
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