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A Phenomenological Approach to understand Student Information Seeking

And Why Children Why Children Seek Information

+Relationships that Foster Intrinsic Motivation for Information Seeking By Sherry R. Crow

+Phenomenography

Qualitative Resarch

Mostly conducted through interviews

Interview pooled rather than tied to individual informants

Focus on manifest content, similarities and differences and categories

Provides a map of a situation through patterns of variations

+What are the experiences in the lives of upper elementary school children that foster an intrinsic motivation to seek information?

+The Self-Determination Approach

An organismic/dialetical apporach with differentiated conceptualizations of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.

Suggest that environment and social contexts facilitate or undermine intrinsic motivation and self-regulation of externally motivated behavior.

+What is Intrinsic Motivation?

The inherent tendency to seek out novelty and challenges

To extend and exercise one’s capacities

To explore and to learn

(Ryan & Deci, 2000 b, p. 70)

+The 4 mini-theories of Self-Determination Theory

Cognitive Evaluation Theory

Organismic Integrity Theory

Causality orientations Theory

Basic Needs Theory

+Focus on Cognitive Evaluation Theory

Social conditions that produce a sense of autonomy and feelings of competence catalyze one’s inherent tendency toward intrinsic motivation.

Relatedness is also a significant factor. Need to Belong

+Research Methodology

9 fifth grade students out of 178 scored high for intrinsic motivation style on “The Information Seeking Self-Regulation Questionnaire

Data for the study was collected primarily through interviews with the 9 students and

Information gleaned from parents and teachers

Drawings gathered from an art activity

+Information sought was:

The factors in the students’ life experiences that contributed to their dispositions toward seeking information generally, and

The factors surrounding their information seeking experiences.

+4 Main Information Seeking Relationships

Students’ affinity for play

Point-of-passion experience

Presence of “anchor” relationships

Preference for group work

+Play

Students have a particular affinity for play.

Discuss play enthusiastically

Connect Play to Information Seeking

+Anchor Relationships

Family or personal relationship that furnishes a secure base for their autonomous actions and information seeking behavior.

+Point-of-Passion Experience

Students’ first remembered experience regarding an interest or fascination they have pursued.

+Favorite Information-seeking Episodes

Students described experiences of working in groups to complete an assignment as the most enjoyable and rewarding.

+Culture and Relationships

In a Lepper, Corpus and Iyenger study, there was a positive correlation between intrrinsic motivation and pleasing the teacher

Research points to the universality of the connection between need satisfaction and intrinsic motivation, but emphasis may differ depending on culture.

Autonomy seems to be the dominant need in individualistic societies

Relatedness seems to be the dominant need in collective societies

+Instrinsically Motivated Students seek information :

For Fun and enjoyment

As a part of daily living

Include their passions, interests and activities