2. Learning Block 1:
Motivation for learning
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expectations
Learning
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3. Successful students often
have clear ideas of what they
want and do not want to
achieve in life.
Children's motivation for
learning needs supportive
settings according to their
own wishes, goals and needs.
Children who are motivated
to learn react positively to
the teacher’s motivational
practices.
Children hold motivational
beliefs which might condition
their attitude towards
learning.
Motivational beliefs refer to
the opinions, judgements and
values that children hold
about themselves, about
objects, events or subject
matters.
4. Motivational beliefs result from
direct learning experiences, verbal
statements and expectations from
teachers, parents or peers, and
social comparisons.
Each child might be inclined to learn
different school subjects according
to their self-efficacy beliefs.
Self-efficacy beliefs are opinions
that students hold about their own
ability in relation to a specific school
subject and their output
expectations about it (mathematics,
music, writing, arts, etc.).
Children's beliefs about a school
subject may be optimistic or
pessimistic, thus providing a positive
or negative attitude for learning.
Once formed, favourable and
unfavourable motivational beliefs
are very resistant to change.