ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses areas of future research, and describe how the field of social goals research. The role of social goals in the learning process suggests that future work should consider how social goals interplay with students’ academic motivation and academic achievement. The interplay of social goals and the learning process suggests that self-regulated learning researchers and situated learning researchers should consider how students’ social goals interrupt, improve, or change how students learn. Social goals range from developing friendships to seeking revenge to gaining social prominence. The breadth of social goals as well as the relative short period for which these goals emerged in research calls to question whether researchers uncovered the full number and scope of all social goals. Interactions among social goals build from the possibility that multiple social goals can co-occur. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
