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(36 pp). Although the motivating question for
this discussion was to examine those factors, which
motivate minority students, in choosing to look at
American Indian students, I was surprised that I
could not isolate "motivating factors" for this
minority group. It seemed illogical that any
given group would be too small for motivation.
Then I began to wonder if the idea of "motivation"
is in accurate. What if motivation is a cultural
assumption that does not apply to this minority
group? If that is true, than a "western"
definition of motivation would be applied to a
group of people, for whom the concept was or is
erroneous, and it would appear that the group would
be then doomed to fail, in relationship to that
definition. That is not to say that certain
individuals might be self-motivated, or motivated
by a relative. However as a group generality, that
did not seem to be the case. The author continues
to look at motivation in a cultural light in
reference to educational needs.
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read through the abstract, and see if you can add any of your own thoughts to it. A paper like this often wants your personal viewpoint as well as
the data that you have collected. Also there is a lot of data, or information attached to this sample paper. As you read through it you may find an
area that you may want to include, or emphasize, depending on the part of the country where you live. Introduction/ Abstract Although the motivating question for this discussion
was to examine those factors, which motivate minority students, in choosing to look at American Indian students, I was surprised that I could not isolate "motivating factors" for this minority
group. It seemed illogical that any given group would be too small for motivation. Then I began to wonder if the idea of "motivation" is in accurate.
What if motivation is a cultural assumption that does not apply to this minority group? If that is true, than a "western" definition of motivation would be applied
to a group of people, for whom the concept was or is erroneous, and it would appear that the group would be then doomed to fail, in relationship to that
definition. That is not to say that certain individuals might be self-motivated, or motivated by a relative. However as a group generality, that did not seem to
be case. Consequently I tried to see what might "stimulate" learning enough to reduce the high drop-out factors (35% in some areas) that we find reported for American Indian students.
Once we see positive learning in relationship to a given culture, then perhaps that will prove to be the motivation. This approach, of questioning motivation, and
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