A fish called motivation

In every learning environment there are situations that can decrease the motivation, for example if the teacher notices that the lecture room is too small for the number of students, it can be demotivating for him/her to get through the administrative barriers to solve this problem. On the other hand the administration has to deal with a lot of demands from the teachers and students, and can usually not satisfy all of them due to budget constraints. The budget is provided by the government, which needs to see an improvement in the students’ abilities to justify the spending, and therefore commissions studies like PISA mentioned above. Within this project work we will study how these interactions concerning motivation occur in university environment (student, teacher, administration and society) and try to motivate you as a reader to avoid demotivational behaviour in the future. To get into the mood, we will start out with some theory.