The present research employed Self-Determination Theory as a theoretical framework for
investigating the role of parents in the quality of the motivation that students adopt towards …

As privilege-dependent organizations, US public schools have an interest in catering to
higher-SES White families. But, what happens when privileged families' interests conflict …

Background: The growing interest among researchers concerning how to use assessment to
enhance students' learning as well as to improve instruction provided the impetus for this …

This chapter aims to extend the cultural-historical theory of LS Vygotsky and AN Leontiev's
theories of children's learning and development so that the complexity of children's activities …

This book explores the dynamics in children's everyday lives as they move between school
and the family, with particular consideration of how children's motives change in response to …

Parents and teachers play an important role in stimulating student motivation. The aim of this
study was to examine if both parent and teacher enthusiasm could predict intrinsic …

In theorizing on family life, children's agency is a feature of a modern type of family, marked
by free choice and inter-generational negotiations rather than parental authority. A video …

At the Faculty of Arts and Science at Linköping University, research and doctoral studies are
carried out within broad problem areas. Research is organized in interdisciplinary research …

This article concerns generation and food morality, drawing on video recordings of dinners
in Swedish middle-class families. A detailed analysis of affect displays during one family …

Theories of framing and positioning focus mainly on meaning‐making and constructing
identities, respectively, and both are used in discourse analysis to investigate …