By picturing the factors that influence achievement motivation in a web of causality, we acknowledge that students exist within a dynamic ecology—it shapes them, and they shape it. To reduce our unit of analysis to the student alone is to miss the fact that he is a product of and contributor to his environment. Likewise, to consider only the context while ignoring the individual student’s unique set of capabilities, desire, and emotions is to miss the proverbial forest for the trees.
Relationships are Key
Lauren Lefebure, M.A.Ed. Research Associate
