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Hybridizing Motivational Strains

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Interdisciplinary research is key to driving knowledge creation and innovation. Unfortunately, within the field of motivation in educational psychology, researchers have failed to learn from each other. Several camps of research, each with their own theory, continue to conduct research which in many cases are parallels to other work completed or ongoing–but employing other theories.

To break these theoretical borders apart and encourage creative integration, this special issue recruited strong researchers to synthesize integrative theoretical models related to individual differences in motivation and learning (i.e., theories related to motivation, emotions, strategies). We asked them to revisit their own theoretical assumptions and cross-fertilize their own theories with other theoretical frameworks. These integrative models will establish common ground for future research.

It is our hope that creative cross-fertilization of theories will confer a cumulative advantage and lead to the creation of more comprehensive frameworks. They will allow the weaknesses or gaps of one approach to be shored up by the strength of others. We believe that each theoretical framework depicts an important part of the story, but only a part. Hence, integrative theoretical models will enable us to tell stories that, hopefully, are more complete than what we have thus far.

Editors

  • Ronnel B. King Ronnel B. King  &

    Ronnel B. King

    Ronnel B. King is an incoming Associate Professor at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been recognized as among the most productive early career educational psychology researchers in the world (Fong et al., 2022) and among the top 2% most highly cited education researchers in the world (Ionnadis et al., 2022). He was a recipient of the Association for Psychological Science Rising Star Award and the Global SELF Highly Commended Doctoral Dissertation Award. His research interests focus on student motivation, socio-emotional learning, and well-being.

  • Luke K. Fryer Luke K. Fryer

    Luke K. Fryer

    Luke K. Fryer is an associate professor at the Faculty of Education and the Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, The University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on students' motivation to learn.

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