Authored by Eric Ekholm As a lifelong fan of Washington D.C. sports teams, I can confidently say that there are plenty of aspects of the Washington Redskins that motivation researchers don’t want to emulate. Resistance to change, cultural insensitivity, and a recent history dominated by mediocrity and irrelevance, just to name a few. And though…
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Does Motivation Science have a place in conversations about Social-Emotional Learning? Authored by Katerina Schenke, PhD. Senior Researcher at CRESST|UCLA Social-emotional learning or SEL has become the latest educational catch-phrase. SEL has been broadly defined as “non-cognitive” or “soft” skills, such as interest and engagement, and has been recognized by policy-makers and the broader public…
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Authored by Kevin Pugh, University of Northern Colorado. Hogwarts – the school of witchcraft and wizardry in the Harry Potter books – has its share of pedagogical problems. Professor Binns could use a dose of Interest Theory, Hagrid should attend a school safety seminar, and Snape really needs to read The Challenge to Care in…
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