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How can schools foster genuine engagement in an age of distraction and complex learning needs?
Too often, efforts to motivate students treat engagement as an individual problem, overlooking the social, cultural and organisational systems that shape learning. Drawing on multiple theories of learning and complexity, this book treats student engagement as a designable system, not a fixed trait. It presents the Pragmatic Adaptive Leadership and Design Model: a framework for understanding how learners engage in activity and how schools can design conditions for meaningful, sustainable participation. Clear templates, protocols, worked examples and case studies show how to implement transformative motivational change while supporting wellbeing.
Accessible and practice-focused, this is an authoritative guide to fostering authentic engagement and enacting lasting motivational change within educational institutions.
Deborah Devis is Research Fellow in Complexity at Adelaide University.
Samuel Fowler is Lecturer in Education at Adelaide University.
Maesie MacGillivray is Research Assistant in the Learning Sciences at Adelaide University.
JohnPaul Kennedy is Senior Lecturer in STEM Education at Adelaide University.
Lisa Smith is Research Fellow in Education at Adelaide University.
Simon Leonard is Professor of Learning Sciences and Professorial Lead at Adelaide University.
1. Engagement in an age of distraction
2. Motivation for authentic engagement with learning whilst supporting wellbeing
3. The complex, evolving social ecologies of engagement
4. Using Self Regulated Learning as a structure for engagement
5. Adding self-efficacy to a dynamic model
6. Shifting a learning culture
7. Enacting transformative motivational change