Motivational factors in homework: Parent’s strategies

Abstract

The paper deals with the topic of home preparation for learning from the elementary school pupils’ parent’s point of view. The aim of the research was to find out the strategies that parents use to motivate a child to cope with homework without stress and negative emotions and whether motivational factors only targeted at homework or parent’s involvement in homework is aimed to motivate the child to the future educational and life success. The results of semi-structured interviews with selected Czech parents show that parenting approach to home preparation is mainly linked to the set of rules for homework and the parents choose motivation strategies as action or reward, also use threats and negative emotions. At the same time, it is evident that the child’s motivation to manage the home preparation is linked to their parent’s responsibility and the ambit ion of the child’s school success. © The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology.