Motivational Patterns in Disaffected School Students

Motivational Patterns in Disaffected School Students - "This small-scale study uses the views of pupils in pupil referral units, plus the views of their tutors and others to try and throw new light on the causes of disaffection. The authors challenge the current assumption that disaffection is the result of an inappropriate curriculum and that the best remedies are those which are 'vocational' or out-of-school. Their study highlights the need for taking individual differences into account when we try to understand what lies behind pupils' disaffection from schooling. The authors also suggest that the notion of 'self-efficacy' – or the perceived ability to be a change agent in one's own life – may provide a key both to understanding disaffection and to designing interventions to help disaffected students in the context of regular schooling."