Motivation, learning, and the educational dialogue
pp. 49-59
in: Ane Qvortrup, Merete Wiberg (eds), Dealing with conceptualisations of learning, Berlin, Springer, 2017Abstract
These days, students in Danish elementary schools are experiencing a greater sense of boredom. In a Danish evaluation (Dansk Center for Undervisningsmiljø [DCUM], 2010), 29% of students in elementary school reported being bored often, and in another more recent evaluation (DCUM, 2014), the number of students who reported being bored increased from 19.3% for fourth- to sixth-grade students to 28.4% for seventh- to ninth-grade students (Wellnitz, 2016, in progress).