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Seeking Stability in Stormy Educational Times: A Need-based Perspective on (De)motivating Teaching Grounded in Self-determination Theory

Vansteenkiste, Maarten, Aelterman, Nathalie, Haerens, Leen, Soenens, Bart·2019·Advances in Motivation and Achievement
DOI 10.1108/s0749-742320190000020004
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Given the complexity of societal, technological, and economic challenges encountered by schools and teachers, one may wonder whether and how teachers can still optimally motivate their students. To adopt a motivating role in today’s ever-changing, even stormy, educational landscape, teachers need more than a checklist of motivating practices. They also need a fundamental theoretical perspective that can serve as a general source of inspiration for their everyday classroom practices across various situations and in interaction with different students. Herein, we argue that self-determination theory represents such a valuable perspective. In Part I, we discuss the satisfaction of learners’ psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness as a source of student motivation, engagement, and resilience. We also present a recently developed circular model involving a broad variety of motivating (i.e., need-supportive) and demotivating (i.e., need-thwarting) teaching practices appealing to these three needs. In Part II, we discuss several implications of this circular model, thereby discussing the diverse pathways that lead to student need satisfaction, motivation, and engagement as well as highlighting teachers’ capacity for calibration to deal with uncertainty and change. We conclude that school principals and teachers do well to invest in both students’ and teachers’ psychological need experiences, such that they become skilled in flexibly adjusting themselves to diversity, uncertainty, and change.

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  • Although pathways to need fulfillment may differ by culture, developmental history, and personality, satisfaction and frustration of the needs will ultimately still produce benefits and costs across such variations.

    “As discussed below, although the pathways to need fulfillment may differ as a function of factors such as culture, developmental history, and personality, the satisfaction and frustration of the needs will ultimately still produce, respectively, benefits and costs across such variations (e.g., Vansteenkiste et al. 2019;Yu et al. 2018).”

    From Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions (2020) · cites this paper as Vansteenkiste et al. 2019

  • Need-supportive socialization implies ongoing calibration of one's approach to others.

    “Thus, need-supportive socialization implies ongoing calibration of one's approach to others (Vansteenkiste et al. 2019).”

    From Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions (2020) · cites this paper as Vansteenkiste et al. 2019

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Authors
Vansteenkiste, M., Aelterman, N., Haerens, L., & Soenens, B.
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Venue
Advances in Motivation and Achievement
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Published
2019-03-08
Pages
53-80
ISSN
0749-7423 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1108/s0749-742320190000020004
OpenAlex
W2921572610
Cited by
169
References
27
Citations by year
2026: 10 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 93 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 2
FWCI
48.03
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.emeraldinsight.com/page/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • Advances in motivation and achievement (publishedVersion)
  • Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (publishedVersion)
  • Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
Keywords
self-determination theory, student motivation, need satisfaction, autonomy, competence, relatedness, need-supportive teaching, demotivation, student engagement, student resilience, uncertainty in education, school principals

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