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In this chapter, we discuss the significance of goals as one traditional source of human actions and report analyses of university students’ goals-directed study. As a domain of interest, students’ academic work is complex enough to encompass the dynamic conditions under which goals are generated and developed and constrained enough to allow us to specify some of the internal and external factors influencing students’ goal-directed activities
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Australian Research Council and Murdoch University, and we acknowledge Agnes Dodds for her contribution to the conceptualization of the diagrams and comments on the manuscript
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Lawrence, J.A., Volet, S.E. (1991). The Significance and Function of Students’ Goals1 . In: Oppenheimer, L., Valsiner, J. (eds) The Origins of Action. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3132-5_5
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