ABSTRACT
Higher education is a high stakes process involving engagement with curricula and often entails coping with the onslaught of assessments and examinations. This process creates a level of intensity that impacts on the student experience in higher education. It is, therefore, important to consider not only the motivational aspects of learning but also quality of life issues, as they have profound effects on students. Quality of life affects the way students interact with their formal education, and has wide-reaching effects on future careers and their ability to coordinate everyday events. Integrating these two concepts, student motivation and quality of life, brings together the explicit elements that underpin learning in the higher education context, creating links between the affective and social aspects of the student life. This synthesis is integral to improving student retention and quality of life and has important ramifications for educationalists, administrators, pastoral care and academic support service personnel, and students themselves. Some highlights of the book include:
- Applied Positive Psychology in Higher Education
- Internationalisation and Quality of Life: A Taiwanese Perspective
- The Computer Assisted Learning for the Mind (CALM) Website: Teaching Skills to Increase Resilience
- The Oxford University Peer Support Programme: Addressing the Wellbeing of Students
- Higher Education and Student Stress: Reclaiming Light, Liberty and Learning
- Improving academic quality of life through attribution- and motivation-focused counselling
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|12 pages
Student perspectives
part II|29 pages
Theoretical perspectives
part III|92 pages
Diversity perspectives on motivation to learn and quality of life
chapter 7|9 pages
Internationalisation and quality of life in higher education
chapter 9|9 pages
Health-related quality of life in youth
chapter 13|10 pages
Culture, motivation and sport
part IV|64 pages
Promotion of motivation to learn and quality of life in higher education
chapter 17|9 pages
The Computer Assisted Learning for the Mind (CALM) website
chapter 18|9 pages
Mental health and perceived self-efficacy of medical students
chapter 21|10 pages
Quality of life, motivation, and professionalism in higher education
part V|12 pages
Conclusion and model