This time something actual,
I just received notice about a nice mailing list also about education.
Their name: edu-factory and you can subscribe here.
Their most recent topic:
Students occupying the audimax of Vienna's university!
At this point I only have links in german:
Here you find a short report about development.
And here you find a statement of the students and professors.
Last but not least look at this page about free education.
Freitag, 23. Oktober 2009
Montag, 12. Oktober 2009
Determine your self?
I just found a paper which I believe is a must-read for everyone concerned with education.
It is about the self determination theory (SDT) from Deci and Ryan. In this paper they discuss the influence of intrinsic motivation on our well-being and success. According to them intrinsic motivation consist not only of spontaneous curiosity which we emphasized before, but also of internalized external influences. Now one would wonder whether everything could become. Can the dictatorial teacher really create intrinsic motivation in us? Obviously not. But why exactly not?
Deci and Ryan point to three essential characteristics every task has to include before it can be internalized. The three are: competence, relatedness, autonomy.
Competence means that we make a difference and know that we do. The second characteristic, Relatedness points that the task must somehow let us feel related to other people. And autonomy stresses that we ourselves can choose our methods and way to deal with this task.
If this three are present we are more likely to accept and internalize the task given. If this three are absent we might have to accept the task anyway but we won't be as successful or happy with it.
A nice example which Deci and Ryan worked out was a research on the pupils and the influence parents had on them. Were the parents motivating them to act on their own and follow their relations then they had a far better success and well-being than when they were controlling.
Now I believe my text is rather vague when it comes to empirical details. Therefore I strongly advise you to read it yourselves. The paper itself is unfortunately but part of the American Psychologists Journal. Therefore I cannot give you a file or a direct link. Still if you are at the university chances are high that you might have access to it anyway. (If you are not you still can access the wikipedia site here.)
Paper:
"Self-Determination Theory and the Facilitation of Intrinsic Motivation, Social Development, and Well-Being" by Deci and Ryan
American Psychologists, Vol. 55(1), p68-78
It is about the self determination theory (SDT) from Deci and Ryan. In this paper they discuss the influence of intrinsic motivation on our well-being and success. According to them intrinsic motivation consist not only of spontaneous curiosity which we emphasized before, but also of internalized external influences. Now one would wonder whether everything could become. Can the dictatorial teacher really create intrinsic motivation in us? Obviously not. But why exactly not?
Deci and Ryan point to three essential characteristics every task has to include before it can be internalized. The three are: competence, relatedness, autonomy.
Competence means that we make a difference and know that we do. The second characteristic, Relatedness points that the task must somehow let us feel related to other people. And autonomy stresses that we ourselves can choose our methods and way to deal with this task.
If this three are present we are more likely to accept and internalize the task given. If this three are absent we might have to accept the task anyway but we won't be as successful or happy with it.
A nice example which Deci and Ryan worked out was a research on the pupils and the influence parents had on them. Were the parents motivating them to act on their own and follow their relations then they had a far better success and well-being than when they were controlling.
Now I believe my text is rather vague when it comes to empirical details. Therefore I strongly advise you to read it yourselves. The paper itself is unfortunately but part of the American Psychologists Journal. Therefore I cannot give you a file or a direct link. Still if you are at the university chances are high that you might have access to it anyway. (If you are not you still can access the wikipedia site here.)
Paper:
"Self-Determination Theory and the Facilitation of Intrinsic Motivation, Social Development, and Well-Being" by Deci and Ryan
American Psychologists, Vol. 55(1), p68-78
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