Sociocultural processes in learning and motivation exposed me to the different methods researchers use to examine cultural and social aspects of education, learning, and motivation. In this class, we were required to read and present a chapter in a book called Big Theories Revisited. The editors of this book interviewed several developers of popular learning theories (e.g., Eccles, Wigfield, Winne, Zimmerman) and asked them to view and revise their theory through a sociocultural framework. We were given the option to choose which chapter we wanted to review and I picked a chapter that focused on the idea of co-regulation. Co-regulation suggests that motivation and self-regulation are interrelated and must be understood as byproducts of individuals’ culture and social context. This chapter as well as this class taught me that although I am interested in processes of motivation and self-regulation, I cannot ignore the social context that these processes operate under.

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