Motivation in Education at a Time of Global Chan – Theory, Research, and Implications for Practice: Advances in Motivation and Achievement

Eleftheria N. Gonida, Ph.D, is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Human Development in the School of Psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her research focuses on the development of motivation, avoidance behaviors in school settings, self-regulated learning, and parental involvement in students' school life. She has been a Fulbright visiting professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a visiting scholar at Stanford University. Dr. Gonida has been actively involved as coordinator in the Erasmus program for student and staff mobility (now Erasmus+, the EU programme to support education, training, youth and sport) for the last twenty years and is currently the chair of the European Educational Programmes Committee at the Aristotle University. Marina S. Lemos, Ph.D, is Associate Professor with Habilitation of Educational Psychology and Development in the Department of Psychology at the Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto (FPCEUP), Portugal. Her research examines students' academic and social motivation, with a particular focus on students' motivation goals, and how they influence engagement, achievement, and school adjustment. Research has also focused on motivation for health behavior and treatment adhesion. Research methods, namely in-depth and contextualized approaches to motivation are also a focus of interest. Marina S. Lemos is director of the Master degree in "Temas de Psicologia" at FPCEUP. She founded and is the coordinator of the "Initiation to scientific research program for first cycle students" at FPCEUP. She has served as EARLI SIG Motivation and Emotion coordinator (2013-2016).