Books in the Advances in Motivation and Achievement series

This volume focuses on motivation in education under changing and unsettling times and provides ideas on how global changes affect student and teacher motivation to learn and achieve.

This volume provides new insight into motivation theory by integrating noteworthy neuroscience research findings on motivation. This volume is dedicated to advancing our understanding of brain mechanisms of underlying motivational phenomena, including reward, approach, autonomy, intrinsic motivation, learning, effort, curiosity, and self-control.

This established book series is designed to reflect current research and theory concerned with motivation and achievement in work, school and play. Each volume focuses on a particular issue or theme and the series has a special goal of bringing the best in social science to bear on socially significant problems.

Examines seven prominent theories of motivation, including research on self-efficacy, achievement goal theory, expectancy-value theory, self-determination theory, self-concept research, implicit motives, and interest. This book also examines the associations between motivation and other constructs, such as emotion and self-regulation.

Includes chapters which examine the associations between motivation and other constructs, such as emotion and self-regulation. This title also features chapters that examine sociocultural approaches to the study of motivation, the motivation of African American students and teachers' motivation, and the policy implications of motivation research.

This volume brings together researchers in motivation from around the world to address new directions in measures and methods for motivational research. The volume discusses the use of projective techniques, on-line questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, observations, and multiple methods.

Covers chapters on different theoretical perspectives in motivation research. This work provides an overview of the social cognitive motivational theories and the issues that these models and perspectives are confronting at the edge of motivational science. It includes chapters such as self-efficacy theory, self-concept theory, and others.

Presents a systematic approach to the topic of motivation and religion through the lens of theories of motivation as expectancy-value, self-determination, and achievement goal theory. This book features scholars offering views about how such theories help to understand religiosity and its impact on human experiences and behavior.

Part of a series that reflects research and theory concerned with motivation and achievement in work, school and play, this title focuses on a particular issue or theme.

Asks questions, regarding the implications of motivation theory for school reform. This volume portrays the potential of research methods and re-examines tried and true conceptions of the nature and nurture of motivation. It also suggests issues and points to venues for application.

Motivational theory has tended to focus on internal psychological processes, this volume reminds us that contextual factors are also important contributors to motivation and achievement. It includes chapters that address the role of context in educational settings including classroom and school analyses, family contexts, work settings, and others.