MOTIVATION AND ITS CHALLENGES TO LEARNING

Motivation is crucial to education; it is a main factor that can drive humans to autonomous and independent learning. It is a complex system and it is individually organised making difficult to offer precise recommendation. A sound under­standing of physiological and psychological processes that triggers human behaviours is vital to a good educational design that will flow naturally according to students’ development. The article aims to do an analysis of recent and fundamental theories on motivation and learning in order to propose to educational professionals some key elements that will strengthen learning motivation and will facilitate teaching and teaching programmes designing. The ground of the article is the fact proven by a great number of studies that show great correlation between students' motivation and positive learning effects. This theoretical article addresses an important question regarding the understanding of motivation: what drives our mo­ti­vational system and what interferes/compete with the motivation to learn new things, to explore and adapt to novelty (novel problem, task, event, situation, context, etc.)