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Currently reading Hoan et al. (2025) on “With or Without You? People Feel Less Autonomous During Social Interactions, Except With Close Others”

October 20, 2025

This is quite an intriguing article! Feeling more related (more belonging?) might make us feel less autonomous (except with people we are super close with)? If, motivated by self-determination theory,…

Currently reading Gülbak & Gülbak (2025) on “Autonomy-Supportive Teacher Behaviours and Their Impact on Student Attendance at University Level”

October 15, 2025

Student attendance has been a hot topic for a while now. In this study, an impressive 101 interviews with students from one first-year course on what teacher behaviours influence their…

Currently reading Boisselier (2025) on how PhD students’ help-seeking behaviour helps them develop research self-efficacy

August 29, 2025

I read this paper on the bus this morning, but in a nutshell: it investigates PhD students’ research self-efficacy (i.e. the confidence in ones own ability to do research) and…

Currently reading Shoshani (2025) on “Teachers’ flow, emotional well-being, and optimal teaching and learning experiences”

July 23, 2025

I’ve been vaguely interested in the persistence of emotions ever since Marlis’ presentation about eco-emotions since at least mine can fluctuate enormously (which makes it very hard to fill in…

Students who say that they cannot be bothered to engage with a task are not necessarily the ones that end up “unsuccessful”

February 3, 2025

When Rachel sends me something, I read ;-) If students, in their second week at university, say that they “can’t be arsed” to do an in-class exercise — will they…

Guest post by Mattias Lundmark on Self-Determination Theory (Vansteenkiste, Lens & Deci; 2006)!

September 11, 2024

“Motivation is left, right and centre in learning. Self Determination Theory’s (SDT) is one of the main theories of motivation, and its two founders, Ryan and Deci, are number 6…

Kaur & Noman (2020): A study applying self-determination theory on Students as Partners

December 9, 2021

I love using self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000) as a framework against which I check all teaching I develop. Is it even possible for students to feel competence, autonomy,…

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Currently reading Hoan et al. (2025) on “With or Without You? People Feel Less Autonomous During Social Interactions, Except With Close Others”

Currently reading Gülbak & Gülbak (2025) on “Autonomy-Supportive Teacher Behaviours and Their Impact on Student Attendance at University Level”

Currently reading Boisselier (2025) on how PhD students’ help-seeking behaviour helps them develop research self-efficacy

Currently reading Shoshani (2025) on “Teachers’ flow, emotional well-being, and optimal teaching and learning experiences”

Students who say that they cannot be bothered to engage with a task are not necessarily the ones that end up “unsuccessful”

Guest post by Mattias Lundmark on Self-Determination Theory (Vansteenkiste, Lens & Deci; 2006)!

Kaur & Noman (2020): A study applying self-determination theory on Students as Partners

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