Making the Grade

A Self-Worth Perspective on Motivation and School Reform

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Hardcover | 2 November 1992

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Achievement behaviour in schools can best be understood in terms of attempts by students to maintain a positive self-image. For many students, trying hard is frightening because a combination of effort and failure implies low ability, which is often equated with worthlessness. Thus many students described as unmotivated are in actuality highly motivated - not to learn, but to avoid failure. Students have a variety of techniques for avoiding failure, ranging from cheating to setting low goals which are easily achieved. In Making the Grade, Martin Covington extracts powerful educational implications from self-worth theory and other contemporary views of motivation that will be useful for everyone concerned with the educational dilemmas we face. He provides a comprehensive, insightful review of research and theory, both contemporary and historical, on the topic of achievement motivation, and arranges this knowledge in ways that lead to imminently practical recommendations for restructuring schools.

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'This is a worthy book which revivifies one of the most tired topics in educational psychology. On its first page, Peter Drucker is quoted thus: 'We know nothing about motivation. All we do is write books about it.' On reaching its final page this has been totally contradicted: by reading this book you will know a good deal about motivation particularly as an antidote for learners in cynical modern educational contexts. With Covington motivation is always a fresh topic.' Tom Phillips, Vocational Aspect of Education 'The book is very readable, insightful, and sensible. It offers a framework for curriculum planning, raises questions concerning what should be the goals of education, and suggests some meaningful ways schools can prepare students for the future.' Educational Researcher 'An extensive and thoughtful conversation about achievement behaviour (motivation). It is a book that is hard to put down if one is seriously inquiring into the topic.' Choice

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Non-Fiction Education Educational Psychology Self-Help, Personal Development & Practical Advice Popular Psychology Assertiveness, Motivation & Self-Esteem & Positive Mental Attitude Psychology

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

A Self-Worth Perspective on Motivation and School Reform

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