Phenomenological analysis of the factors of decline in motivation to study at secondary school students

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Research/Original Article (دارای رتبه معتبر)
Abstract:

The important fact is that all the amazing advances of man born in today's world, learning. Motivation plays a significant role in the process of learning. In spite of the tremendous importance of motivation in students' learning and motivation as well as evidence of educational failure, but depth research in this area is rare. Current study tried to investigate the possible factor of the decreased educational motivation and methods to improve it by using interpretative approach while representing the existing damages. Therefore, an attempt was made to use semi-structured interview technique and narrative data which was obtained from an interview with 38 students (boys and girls). The data was analyzed using Colaizzi's strategy in order to produce substantial results which would lead to the credibility of the results, meanwhile taking into account the study phenomenon from their perspective. Depth analysis of narratives was used, to identify and classify 13 sub-theme and so the 5 main themes were identified. The results indicated a drop in educational motivation of high school students in the study population which was affected negatively by the following factors: personal factors, familial, scholastic, new technologies and social factors are. In this paper, each of the identified factors associated with student accounts, has been discussed.

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Persian
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Journal of Applied Psycology Research, Volume:7 Issue: 3, 2016
Pages:
235 to 254
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