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Guay, Frederic; Chanal, Julien; Ratelle, Catherine F.; Marsh, Herbert W.; Larose, Simon; Boivin, Michel – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Background: There are two approaches to the differential examination of school motivation. The first is to examine motivation towards specific school subjects (between school subject differentiation). The second is to examine school motivation as a multidimensional concept that varies in terms of not only intensity but also quality (within school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Learning Motivation
Kendrick, Maureen; McKay, Roberta – Canadian Journal of Education, 2002
Children's drawings about reading and writing have unrealized potential for helping uncover the literacy narratives students bring to school and use to make sense of reading and writing. In this article, we highlight how one boy's drawing about literacy revealed his interpretation of his school's policy on violence as a topic of writing, which…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Childrens Art, Personal Narratives, Literacy