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 ...

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.

We've all heard that knowledge can bestow power. More specifically, practical principles, when understood and well applied, provide the leverage to change reality -- whether in science, construction, ...

I've got to make a confession: I always have second thoughts about addressing the issue of motivation. Probably for a couple of reasons. First, thousands of successful leaders, across dozens of ...

On Aug. 30, readers directed their questions on student motivation to a panel that included Edward L. Deci, a professor of psychology at the University of Rochester; Carol S. Dweck, a professor of ...

Leadership comes in various forms, such as the civil rights leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the political leadership of John F. Kennedy, and the managerial leadership of a small business ...