How to Create Nonreaders: Reflections on Motivation, Learning, and Sharing Power

Autor/in	Kohn, Alfie
Titel	How to Create Nonreaders: Reflections on Motivation, Learning, and Sharing Power
Quelle	In: English Journal, 100 (2010) 1, S.16-22 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-8274
Schlagwörter	Reading; Role; Classroom Environment; Teacher Effectiveness; Teacher Influence; Teaching Styles; Teacher Expectations of Students; Student Motivation; Reading Motivation; Reading Assignments; Reports; Social Isolation; Reading Skills; Incentives; Reading Tests; Locus of Control; Personal Autonomy; Selection; Books + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leseprozess; Lesen; Rollen; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Lehrstil; Unterrichtsstil; Schulische Motivation; Lesemotivation; Abschlussbericht; Berichten; Soziale Isolation; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Anreiz; Lesetest; Individuelle Autonomie; Auslese; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie
Abstract	The author suggests that it is impossible to motivate students. He said that in fact, it's not really possible to motivate anyone, except perhaps oneself. What a teacher "can" do--"all" a teacher can do--is work with students to create a classroom culture, a climate, a curriculum that will nourish and sustain the fundamental inclinations that everyone starts out with: to make sense of oneself and the world, to become increasingly competent at tasks that are regarded as consequential, to connect with other people. Motivation--at least intrinsic motivation--is something to be supported, or if necessary revived. It's not something teachers can instill in students by acting on them in a certain way. "You can tap their motivation, in other words, but you can't motivate them." On the other hand, what teachers clearly have the ability to do with respect to students' motivation is kill it. In this article, the author suggests seven ways to kill students' motivation. They include: (1) Quantify their reading assignments; (2) Make them write reports; (3) Isolate them; (4) Focus on skills; (5) Offer them incentives; (6) Prepare them for tests; and (7) Restrict their choices. (Contains 10 notes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10