Motivation and emotion/Topics

Motivation

 * Recommended reading
 * 1) Motivation (Wikipedia)
 * 2) Functional approach to motivation: Discuss Clary & Snyder's Volunteer Functions Inventory and their conceptual model of volunteer motivations.
 * 3) Maslow's hierarchy of needs: Discuss the model, background, strengths and weaknesses of Maslow's hierarchy of needs
 * 4) Spiritual/religious motivation
 * 5) University student motivation: Discuss the research literature about the motivations of students to attend university and what is known about the possible consequences of different  levels of emotion (e.g., on academic performance)

Emotion

 * Recommended reading
 * 1) Emotion (Wikipedia)


 * Topic
 * 1) Core emotions
 * 2) Empathy
 * 3) Goal-setting
 * 4) Feedback
 * 5) The role of affect in learning - How do our emotions affect what and how we learning? For example, see Cognition, affect, and learning: The role of affect in learning (Barry Kort, Google Knol)