TY  - BOOK
N2  - Decades of reserach indicate the important connections among academic motivation and achievement, social relationships, and school culture. However, much of this research has been conducted in homogenous American schools serving middle class, average achieving, Anglo-student populations. Thisedited volume will argue that school culture is a reflection of the society in which the school is embedded and comprises various aspects, including induvidualism, competition, cultural stereotypes, and extrinsically guided values and rewards. They address three specific conceptual questions: How dodifferences in academic motivation for diverse groups of students change over time? How do students' social cognitions influence their motivational processes and outcomes in school? And what has been done to enhance academic motivation? To answer this last question, the contributers describeempirically validated intervention programs for improving academic motivation in students from elementary school through college.
AB  - Decades of reserach indicate the important connections among academic motivation and achievement, social relationships, and school culture. However, much of this research has been conducted in homogenous American schools serving middle class, average achieving, Anglo-student populations. Thisedited volume will argue that school culture is a reflection of the society in which the school is embedded and comprises various aspects, including induvidualism, competition, cultural stereotypes, and extrinsically guided values and rewards. They address three specific conceptual questions: How dodifferences in academic motivation for diverse groups of students change over time? How do students' social cognitions influence their motivational processes and outcomes in school? And what has been done to enhance academic motivation? To answer this last question, the contributers describeempirically validated intervention programs for improving academic motivation in students from elementary school through college.
T1  - Academic motivation and the culture of school in childhood and adolescence /
DA  - 2008.
CY  - Oxford ;
CY  - New York :
AU  - Hudley, Cynthia.
AU  - Gottfried, Adele Eskeles.
CN  - LB1065
CN  - LB1065
PB  - Oxford University Press,
PP  - Oxford ;
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2008.
N1  - Series statement from jacket.
ID  - 349040
KW  - Motivation in education.
KW  - School environment.
SN  - 9780195326819
SN  - 0195326814
TI  - Academic motivation and the culture of school in childhood and adolescence /
LK  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip083/2007044013.html
LK  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0907/2007044013-d.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip083/2007044013.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0907/2007044013-d.html
ER  -