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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)
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Front Matter
About this book
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
Authors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia
David Kember
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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