Educational motivation in children with visual impairment

Abstract

The formation of the child’s motivational sphere is a fundamental problem of psychology. It is known that motivation determines the orientation of the personality and the impulse to activity. Moreover, a favorable period of the most intensive formation of the motivational sphere is the primary school age. Younger school age is the beginning of the formation of the motivation of learning, on which its fate throughout the entire school age largely depends. The question of the formation of motivation for educational activities in the elementary grades with visual impairments is not well understood. As a result of this, the question of options for increasing the level of motivation for learning in children of this category remains open. The article considers the problem of the formation of educational motivation of students of secondary educational institutions with visual impairments. The authors made an attempt to find out the features of motivation in children with visual impairments and to identify the level of development of educational motivation. The study was conducted in students of secondary educational institutions. The results are obtained: the educational motivation of primary school children without visual impairment is higher than in children with visual impairment.