Cultivating Sustainable Motivation to Learn in Rural Students: Teachers' Strategies for Long-Term Educational Empowerment
Keywords:
learning motivation, motivational strategies, cultivation of motivation, rural educationAbstract
This study examines the motivational strategies employed by rural secondary school teachers to foster students’ motivation to learn. This study substantiates the findings from rural public secondary schools in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. Data were taken from four science subject secondary school teachers through a snowball sampling technique. The present study's findings corroborate the research questions that seven motivational strategies make learning fascinating, thereby cultivating motivation to learn. Moreover, the strategies, mainly life inspiration and encouragement, were being used as a crucial tool to cultivate motivation to learn and motivate students for higher education. The present study contributes to the cultivation of motivation to learn by elaborating motivational strategies used by rural teachers to enrich the motivation to learn in the life endeavors of rural students.
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