Martin V. Covington

The Will to Learn

A Guide for Motivating Young People

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Martin Covington introduces the basic principles of motivation as they apply to classroom learning in a readable, non-technical form and provides strategies for motivating students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 693g
• ISBN-13: 9780521553537
• ISBN-10: 0521553539
• Artikelnr.: 22067144

Inhaltsangabe

1. The future and its discontents
2. Motives as emotions
3. Motives as thoughts
4. Self-worth and the fear of failure
5. The competitive learning game
6. Motivational equity and the will to learn
7. Strategic thinking and the will to learn
8. An immodest proposal
9. Obstacles to change: the myths of competition
Epilogue
Appendixes
References
Author index
Subject index.