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Direct linkAzevedo, Flavio S. – Cognition and Instruction, 2011
Based on a three-year-long ethnography of the hobby of model rocketry, I present a practice-centered theory of interest relationships--that is, the pattern of long-term, self-motivated engagement in open-ended practices that has been theorized under the concept of "individual interests". In contrast to extant theories of individual interests, in…
Descriptors: Interests, Ethnography, Vocational Interests, Barriers
Azevedo, Flavio S. – International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, 2006
We investigate the dynamics of student engagement as it is manifest in self-directed, self-motivated, relatively long-term, computer-based scientific image processing activities. The raw data for the study are video records of 19 students, grades 7 to 11, who participated in intensive 6-week, extension summer courses. From this raw data we select…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Self Motivation, Videotape Recordings, Secondary School Students
