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Summary
Table of Contents
Part I. The Future and its Discontents: Prospects for building the future | |
The failure to learn: A motivational analysis | |
A moral tale | |
Part II. Motives as Emotions: Need achievement | |
The model: B = M x P x I | |
Analysis and critique | |
Further educational implications | |
Part III. Motives as thoughts: Cognitions versus emotions | |
Analysis and critique | |
Educational implications | |
Conclusions | |
Part IV. Self-Worth and the Fear of Failure: Self-worth theory of achievement motivation | |
An arsenal of excuses | |
Motivated cognitions and coping | |
Conclusions | |
Part V. Achievement Anxiety: A brief history | |
Integration | |
Reducing anxiety | |
Conclusions | |
Part VI. The Competitive Learning Game: The structure of learning | |
Scarcity of rewards | |
Competition and minorities | |
Conclusions | |
Part VII. Motivational Equity and the Will to Learn: The problem | |
Solutions | |
Global gambit | |
Conclusions | |
Part VIII. Strategic Thinking and the Will to Learn: What is thinking? | |
The evidence | |
Strategic problems | |
Problem discovery | |
The transfer of knowledge | |
Analysis and conclusions | |
Part IX. An Immodest Proposal: Serious games | |
Playing school | |
Schools and jobs | |
Prospects and conclusions | |
Part X. Obstacles to Change: The myths of competition | |
If not competition, then what? | |
Conclusions | |
Appendices | |
References | |
Index. |
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