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Article
Qualitative Study of Motives in Mexican School Children
Author(s)
Yulia Solovieva
Adriana Mata Esquivel
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5542/2017.07.003
Affiliation(s)
Puebla Autonomous University, Puebla, Mexico
Iberoamericana University, Puebla, Mexico
ABSTRACT
Learning at school might
be considered as an example of collective joint activity, in which pupils
conform and acquire different motives. Different types of motives were
identified: external and internal. External motives are related to external
needs of activity, such as school marks or stimulation of learning by
permission of attractive objects with no relation to cognition. Internal
motives are related to cognitive needs, when the pupils are really interested and
motivated by the content of school matters. The motives of activity of school
learning were never studied in Latin America. The objective of this study is to
propose the qualitative way of assessment of the sphere of motives by
specifically organized interview and creation of interactive drawings by
pupils. The study was accomplished in a small private school in the city of
Puebla, Mexico, with the pupils of the third grade of primary school. The
results indicate that internal motives help to guarantee positive emotional
relation of children to school and create the interest for learning process.
External motives might be divided into three groups: motives, which support the learning
process, motives, which are indifferent to the learning process, and motives, which
become serious obstacles for cognition. The results help to understand
emotional and cognitive difficulties and conflicts, which accompany children in
the period of learning at primary school. Reflective consideration of
differences of motives in learning activity may become one of the paths for
qualitative modification of social communication and organization of teaching
process in modern school.
KEYWORDS
motivation, school learning, development of personality, school age, motives of learning, development of motives
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