Overview
- Provides a comprehensive treatment of motivation in higher education by examining motivation for enrolment, motivation to study and how to motivate through teaching and learning
- Describes a multi-faceted teaching and learning environment conducive to motivating student learning
- Discusses conceptual frameworks derived from an open or naturalistic investigation of students in higher education
- Examines how cultural and systemic issues impact on students’ motivation and success
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Keywords
- Assessment of learning activities
- Costs and obligations of attending university
- Cultural issues in Higher Education
- Hong Kong education
- Individual goal setting
- Learning activities
- Motivation in higher education
- Motivation to enrol
- Motivation to study
- Systemic issues in Higher Education
- Teaching for understanding
- building theoretical foundations
- choice versus coherence
- conceptual framework
- motivational orientation framework
- motive in higher education
- sense of belonging
- teacher-student relationships
- teaching and learning environment
- university students motivation
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding the Nature of Motivation and Motivating Students through Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Authors: David Kember
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-883-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-881-6Published: 24 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1247-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-883-0Published: 17 November 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 153
Number of Illustrations: 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Higher Education, Learning & Instruction, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation