Promoting Motivation and Learning in Contexts

Sociocultural Perspectives on Educational Interventions

Gregory Arief D. Liem, Dennis M. McInerney

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN:
  9781648021626
• Print ISBN:
  9781648021602
  9781648021619
• Topic: Education

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• PromotingMotivation and Learningin Contexts
• PromotingMotivation andLearning in Contexts
• CONTENTS
• 1. CULTURALLY RELEVANT ANDRESPONSIVE EDUCATIONALINTERVENTIONS
• 2. SOCIOCULTURAL INFLUENCESON TEACHERS’ REACTIONSTO AN INTERVENTION TOHELP THEM BECOME MOREAUTONOMY SUPPORTIVE
• 3. STRENGTHENINGADOLESCENTS’ CONFIDENCETO LEARN
• 4. PROMOTING LEARNINGFOR ALL IN MOTIVATIONALLYSUPPORTIVE, CULTURALLYRESPONSIVE, INCLUSIVEENVIRONMENTS
• 5. SOCIOCULTURALPROCESSES IN IDENTITYBASEDMOTIVATIONALINTERVENTIONS
• 6. PASSION IN EDUCATION
• 7.IMPLEMENTATION OFSELF-REGULATED LEARNINGFOCUSEDINTERVENTIONSIN SCHOOLS
• 8. TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNINGWITHIN CULTURAL SPACES
• 9. TEACHING MENTALCONTRASTING TO FACILITATEEDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTACROSS SOCIOCULTURALCONTEXTS
• 10. SOCIOCULTURALCONSIDERATIONS INUNDERSTANDING TESTANXIETY, ITS IMPLICATIONSON ACHIEVEMENT,AND CONTEXTUALLYAPPROPRIATEINTERVENTIONS
• 11. SOCIOCULTURALCONSIDERATIONSFOR MINDFULNESSBASEDINTERVENTIONSIN EDUCATION
• 12. HOPE INTERVENTIONSFOR STUDENTS
• 13. A SOCIOCULTURALPERSPECTIVE ON YOUTHENTREPRENEURSHIPEDUCATION
• 14. NO SOY DE AQUÍ NI SOYDE ALLÁ
• ABOUT THE EDITORS
• ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS