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Engagement with learning: Adolescent perceptions of self and school

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2015

Mary D. Ainley
Mary D. Ainley*
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University Of Melbourne
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School of Behavioural Science, Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, PARKVILLE 3052, Email: mary-ainley@muwayf.unimelb.edu.au
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Abstract

Student motivation as an organised system of relations between the self and learning involves a set of beliefs and intentions that function as motives for action. The present research programme proposes that students in formal leaming settings come equipped with particular views of what school learning is all about, the purpose of their learning, and of themselves as learners. Findings from a longitudinal study investigating student motivation as expressed in curiosity and approaches to school learning are described. The ways adolescents connect themselves (or fail to connect themselves) with their learning are examined in two cohorts of female students assessed in Years 7, 9, and 11.

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The Educational and Developmental Psychologist , Volume 11 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Adolescence , May 1994, pp. 15 - 23
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Copyright © Australian Psychological Society 1994

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