Understanding low motivation of tribal students in learning context: Scope of cultural- historical approach in psychology

Pages:453-456
Vijith K. (Department of Psychology, Govt. Arts and Science College Mankada, Kolathur, Kerala)

Taking the academic problems of tribal students in India as a case, this review paper attempts to critically evaluate the scope of existing theories of motivation to understand cross-cultural learning context and to join with the new approaches that are developing from the cultural-historical tradition in psychology. Initially, this paper discusses the motivational problems of tribal students as they engage in learning processes and then proceeds to enquire the scope of cultural- historical approach to motivation, and finally it engages these problems from the point of view of the proposed approach.