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 * MOTIVATION ** **- IT MAY COME FROM WITHIN, IT MAY BE INITIATED FROM OUTSIDE, IT IS A POWERFUL THING, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO ONES EDUCATION. - By Tracy Noble**



Defined as.....
 * **a reason or reasons for acting or behaving in a particular way **
 * **desire or willingness to do something; enthusiasm **16.

The definition of motivation alone is not quite enough to fully comprehend the complexity behind this word and to understand all of the things that it entails. We have created this wiki to further describe motivation and the components associated with it in greater detail. We hope that the following information will assist in developing a greater understanding of motivation beyond its basic definition.

Here we start...

Everything evolves with the changing time and so did the developmental perspective in the education system. From Blake’s point of view 4 schools have been repeatedly challenged and faulted by would-be reformers for their failure to motivate and interest students.

O, it drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay”. - William Blake ||
 * = <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">“ But to go to school on a summer morn,

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">According to an old saying, the best two days of school are the first and the last. The reason was few activities in school seemed to command student’s complete attention and interest (Dreeben, <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; vertical-align: super;">10 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">,Silberman, <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; vertical-align: super;">17 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">).

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Is it not an amazing fact that before school age, learning seems intrinsically motivating for children? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Have any one of us heard of a three or four year old child with a "motivational deficit"? No rather this is very common that parents complain about the insatiable curiosity and boundless energy of their kids!

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">Yet, by the time these same children have entered a school, a prodigious number of students are labeled as the ones with motivational difficulties.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">What went wrong? Are there actual developmental shifts in the level of intrinsic or for that matter extrinsic motivation? If so, what might account for these shifts? To get answers to these we have to look into what intrinsic or extrinsic motivations are.

//**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." **// //<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%;">[|Dwight D. Eisenho] //

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">First, let us watch what the real meaning of Motivation is for Teachers!

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 * //<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">"Responsibility is the cornerstone of adult motivation". (Wlodkowski,2008 //<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 80%;">^25 //<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 150%;">) //**

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