Culture, Context, and Meaning: Honoring Marty Maehr’s Contributions to the Field of Achievement Motivation

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The groundbreaking scholarship of Martin L. Maehr, who passed away on January 2017, has been a critical voice underpinning contemporary advances in the field of achievement motivation. This commemoration session brings together Marty’s students and colleagues to share and discuss his forward theoretical thinking and empirical work on the roles of culture, context, and meaning-making in motivation in educational settings. The audience will hear reflections on Marty’s challenges to the dominant McClelland-Atkinson achievement motive paradigm of the 1960s, the cross-cultural origins of his important contribution to the foundation of achievement goal theory, and the school-wide intervention project that still constitutes one of the most ambitious attempts to change a school’s motivational culture.

Sub Unit

• AERA Sessions

Cosponsors

• Division C - Learning and Instruction

• SIG-Motivation in Education

• SIG-Studying and Self-Regulated Learning

Chair

• Stuart A. Karabenick, University of Michigan

Papers

• Continuing Motivation - Eric M. Anderman, The Ohio State University

• Context and Motivation - Tim Urdan, Santa Clara University

• Culture and Motivation - Akane Zusho, Fordham University; Revathy Kumar, University of Toledo

• Motivation and Identity - Avi Kaplan, Temple University

Discussants

• Dennis M. McInerney, The Education University of Hong Kong

• Julianne C. Turner, University of Notre Dame