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Motivating children to learn : the role of technology education
Design and technology education provides children with opportunities to create solutions to specific needs in innovative ways. This paper reports on research that focused on the language that the children used when they were involved in a design and technology activity. In accessing the results of the language study, the findings suggest that the children’s motivation was high and played a significant role in children’s task engagement and persistence. Analysis revealed that there were several key ideas that the children focused on, namely: the fun experienced by participating in the activity, the difficulty of doing the task, the satisfaction of completing the task, the importance of social interaction and the frustrations surrounding aspects of the task. These affective factors that are related directly to motivation will be demonstrated through the children’s language responses to their participation in design and technology education.
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International journal of technology and design educationVolume
22Issue
1Pagination
1 - 11Publisher
Springer NetherlandsLocation
Dordrecht, The NetherlandsPublisher DOI
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0957-7572eISSN
1573-1804Language
engNotes
Published online 4th August 2010Publication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2010, Springer Science+Business MediaUsage metrics
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