Keeping the Conversation Going: Next Steps in Theoretical Approaches to Understanding the Academic Motivation of Racially and Ethnically Diverse Students

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Many researchers have called for more research centered on motivation in students from historically marginalized populations. In this symposium, we build on Patall et al.’s (2019) AERA symposium on motivation in diverse students, Wigfield and Koenka’s (2020) special issue of Contemporary Educational Psychology on motivation theory, which included theorists’ perspectives on motivation in diverse students, and Koenka and Wigfield’s (2020) APA symposium that included the theories in the special issue, critical race theory, and Jamaal Matthews’ discussion. The panel will extend the discussion of motivation in ethnically and racially diverse students by discussing next steps in motivation theory and research. The format will be fully discussion-based, with the panelists interacting with each other and the audience.

Sub Unit

• Division C - Learning and Instruction

Cosponsor

• SIG-Motivation in Education

Chair

• Alison C. Koenka, Virginia Commonwealth University

Moderator

• Arianna C White-Levatich, Old Dominion University

• Korinthia Danielle Danielle Nicolai, Virginia Commonwealth University

• XIAOYIN CHEN, University of Georgia - Athens

Panelists

• Jessica T. Decuir-Gunby, North Carolina State University

• Sandra Graham, University of California - Los Angeles

• Wendy Grolnick, Clark University

• Revathy Kumar, University of Toledo

• Jamaal Matthews, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

• Tim Urdan, Santa Clara University

• Ellen L. Usher, University of Kentucky

• Allan L. Wigfield, University of Maryland - College Park