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Insert 2.4 Sociocultural Theories

Sociocultural theory emphasizes impact of activity and actions mediated through social interaction, and within social contexts. Sociocultural theories represent a shift from traditional theories of motivation, which view an individual’s innate drives or mechanistic operand learning as primary determinants of motivation. Critical elements to sociocultural theory include the role of social interactions and the contributions from culturally-based knowledge and practice (Rueda and Moll). Sociocultural theory extends the social aspects of Cognitive Evaluation Theory, which espouses the important role of positive feedback from others during action (Ryan and Deci, 2000), but requires the individual as the internal locus of causality. Sociocultural theory predicts that motivation has an external locus of causality, and is socially distributed among the social group (Rueda and Moll, 1994).

Practice In contents insert - Motivation to Practice Learning is closely linked to practice and.  applied to motivation of practice suggests that motivation resides not within the individual, but within the domain of social and cultural contexts united by shared action and activity. Thus, motivation to practice is not simply within the locus of the individual, but rather the locus is the activity and its specific contexts of which the individual is a participant (Rueda and Moll, 1994).