Teachers who create warm and accepting yet business-like atmospheres will promote persistent effort and favorable attitudes toward learning. This strategy will be successful in children and in adults.

Two people can engage in similar behavior for markedly different reasons. One child may drink her juice for the reward of its taste and the slaking of thirst; another may drink her juice to get the ...

Basic principles of motivation exist that are applicable to learning in any education situation. 1. The environment can be used to focus the student’s attention on what needs to be learned. Teachers ...

A recent study with prospective teachers at the University of Cologne shows how research competence develops during ...

Culture shock comes to the classroom in Doha, Qatar, where it’s not enough to teach students that education can lead to a better life. I often use this picture of my parents in pajamas, of one early ...

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." —Dwight D. Eisenhower In an era where remote work and education are becoming the norm, ...

Education writing is famous for its alphabet soup of acronyms and obscure terms, but it could just as well be faulted for trafficking buzzwords in search of clear definitions. Ideas like grit, ...

"Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among ...