CHYS 2P15 Lecture Notes - Motivation, Youth Engagement, Delayed Gratification
26 Feb 2013
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How to get youth involved at a young age. Craig kiel burger- turned his interest in helping youth into something to help himself and people all over the world. Engaging with youth- community involvement, supporting children and youth. How does one develop the initiative- in the helpers and the people getting helped. Surveyed youth on 16,000 random moments of daily experience. 4300 (27%) of the moments were feeling bored". Intrinsic motivation; wanting to be doing ad activity and invested in it. Concerted engagement in the environment a real" environment that characterized external reality. Graph of 16000 random events; very low intrinsic motivation and concentration is. Ok"- people have to be concentrated in order to do well. Children are very intrinsically motivated with their friends. School environment is not conducive to the development of initiative. Not critical of schools- constraints on teachers.
