Research Nebula

2

Authors: A. RENUGADEVI Assistant Professor, Department of Education, SDE, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

Motivation is usually defined as an internal state that arouses, directs and maintains behavior. Psychologists studying motivation have focused on five basic questions. What choices do people make about their behavior? Why do some students focus on their home work and others watch television? How long does it take to get started? Why do some student start their homework right away, while others procrastinate (postpone)? What is the intensity or level of involvement in the chosen activity? What causes a person to persist or to give up? What is the individual thinking and feeling while engaged in the activity? Absolute answers for all these questions are one simple answer, Motivation. Motivation is essential to the operation and organizations and class room activities. The behavior is caused by the certain causes which relates to the persons need and consequences that results from acts. The sources of motivation to learn curiosity learning task relevance, goal setting motive matching and self efficacy. Motives are expressions of a person’s needs. Incentives on the other hand, are external to the person. In this paper we try to highlight some of the ways and methods to motivate children.