Description:
Self-efficacy and future goals are key to understanding and reinforcing the motivation to learn, especially for students in classroom settings. Written by a leading expert on motivation, this book situates the topic within the broader context of educational psychology research and theory and brings it to a wider audience.
Review Quotes:
"In this highly synthetic book, Barbara A. Greene draws on a wealth of motivation research to weave together conceptual contributions of self-determination and social cognitive theories with self-efficacy and future goals to provide teachers and parents with adaptive strategies to promote learning. Suggestions include providing informational rather than evaluative feedback, establishing autonomous rather than controlling classrooms, and, consistent with current relevance intervention research, stressing links between classroom activity and desirable future outcomes."
---Stuart A. Karabenick, Research Professor, Combined Program in Education & Psychology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA