%0 Journal Article
%T Inspiring Student Self-Motivation
%A Virginia Brackett
%J InSight : A Journal of Scholarly Teaching
%D 2007
%I Park University
%X While normally appreciative of the invitation to join colleagues in a discussion of pedagogy and what ˇ°worksˇ± in the classroom, I have in most instances reluctantly participated in discussion of student motivation. I dip my toe into this philosophical quagmire only if permitted license to substitute the phrase student inspiration in place of student motivation. I also find it helpful to turn the rhetorical tables, as it were, and consider self-motivation on the part of students. The concept of individuals who hold some sense of self that a classroom mentor may nurture through student inspiration is one in which I place a modicum of trust. To ˇ°inspireˇ± is literally to ˇ°breathe in,ˇ± to actively pull sustenance from a proffered external source. Active student determination based on some sense of self may couple with instructor inspiration to promote academic success.
%K student motivation
%K higher education
%K self-motivation
%U http://www.insightjournal.net/Volume2/Inspiring%20Student%20Self-Motivation.pdf