Building Autonomous Learners: Perspectives from Research and Practice Using Self-Determination Theory (Hardcover, 2016)

Chapter 1 Understanding Motivation in Education: Theoretical and Practical considerations.- Chapter 2 Optimizing students' Motivation in the era of Testing and Pressure: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective.- Chapter 3 The Dualistic model of Passion: Theory, research, and implications for the field of Education.- Chapter 4 Towards a more systematic study of the dark side of Student Motivation: Antecedents and consequences of teachers' controlling behaviours.- Chapter 5 How can we create better learning contexts for children? Promoting students' autonomous motivation as a way to foster enhanced educational outcomes.- Chapter 6 Teachers' motivation in the classroom.- Chapter 7 Autonomy-Supportive teaching: What it is, How to do it.- Chapter 8 An instruction sequence promoting autonomous motivation for coping with challenging learning subjects.- Chapter 9 Parental involvement and Children's academic motivation and achievement.- Chapter 10 Parental influence and students' outcomes and well-being.- Chapter 11 Creating an Autonomy-Supportive Physical Education (PE) learning environment.- Chapter 12 Can being Autonomy-Supportive in teaching improve students' self-regulation and performance? Chapter 13 Translating motivational theory into application of Information Technology in the classroom.- Chapter 14 Focus on competing for performance or mastering new knowledge? Insights from discovering the relations between classroom goal structures and students' learning in Singapore secondary schools.- Chapter 15 Promoting Mastery-Approach goals to support the success of the 'Teach Less Learn More' educational initiatives.