Wlodkowski (1997) on Designing Workshops with Motivation in Mind

Wlodkowski, R. J. (1997). Motivation with a mission: Understanding motivation and culture in workshop design. In J. A. Fleming (Ed.), New perspectives on designing and implementing effective workshops (New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, vol 49) (pp. 19-31). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Type of Work
Book chapter
Audience
Workshop providers/designers
Purpose / Topic

• Motivating workshop participants
• Using the Motivational Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching to guide workshop planning

My Notes

• This work assumes the value of Wlodkowski & Ginsburg’s Framework. I would have liked more information about its development as well as more information about the theoretical constructs that contribute to motivation of students. That, however, was not really the purpose of this chapter.

Why I *heart* Illeris (2007)

Illeris, K. (2007). How we learn: Learning and non-learning in school and beyond (M. Malone, Trans.). London and New York: Routledge.

Introductory Review
I first encountered this book in a class on Adult Learning.  I loved it.  Most of my colleagues did not.  As with the writings of many European intellectuals, Illeris is not an easy read.  Phraseology and sentence structures will feel foreign to most American readers, and it is sometimes difficult to identify the common thread that ties the various sections of a chapter together, especially at the beginning of a chapter.  However, readers who stick with Illeris will find that seemingly disparate thoughts come together in creative and convention-challenging ways.