What is it about?
This study explores how student motivation is shaped by relationships, institutions, and culture — seen through the eyes of students, teachers, and parents at a Greek minority school in Turkey.
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Why is it important?
Motivation is often treated as something that lives inside the student. This study challenges that showing how it is co-constructed across home, school, and community, and that teachers, parents, and students don't always see it the same way. Especially relevant for minority and bilingual school contexts.
Perspectives
What drew me to this project — and made me say yes to Dr. Vasiou's invitation to participate — was the complexity: multiple informants in a bilingual minority school, two theoretical frameworks and the challenge to bring these all together! Being part of a lively research group and contributing to the drafting, writing and editing of the paper was a genuine pleasure!
Dr. Georgios Vleioras
University of Thessaly
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This page is a summary of: Ecologically negotiated student motivation: a multi-perspective qualitative study through self-determination theory and ecological systems theory, Social Psychology of Education, April 2026, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s11218-026-10204-2.
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