The Relationship Between School Engagement and Conscious Self-regulation of Learning Activity: The Current State of the Problem and Research Perspectives in Russia and Abroad

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The article presents a theoretical and methodological analysis of the problem of school engagement, the research of which is highly relevant nowadays in foreign educational psychology. School engagement is a reliable marker of efficient learning organisation and also an important academic result, the pursuit of which indicates the efficiency of the school educational environment. The purpose of the article was to analyse the current state of the problem of school engagement and the specifics of the relationship between school engagement and self-regulation of learning activity in Russian and foreign psychology. The authors formulated a working definition of engagement, according to which school engagement is understood as a stable, directed, active participation of students both in learning activities and in school life in general, including observable and unobservable interactions with the academic social environment; assessed various models of school engagement used for research and practice; substantiated the efficiency of the approach, according to which school engagement is viewed as a multidimensional construct, including behavioural, emotional and cognitive components; examined the differences between school engagement and academic motivation; and analysed the specific features of the main components of school engagement and their relationship with self-processes, in particular, with self-regulation. It was also noted that, in Russian psychology, issues related to the study of school engagement and the specifics of its relationship with various psychological phenomena have not yet received widespread consideration. In conclusion, the authors outlined the perspectives for verifying foreign models of school engagement and diagnostic tools on Russian samples as well as studying conscious self-regulation of learning activity as a resource for student engagement in different learning periods.

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Tatiana G. Fomina

Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education

Author for correspondence.
Email: tanafomina@mail.ru

PhD in Psychology, is leading researcher at Department of Psychology of Self-regulation

9 Mokhovaya St, bldg 4, Moscow, 125009, Russian Federation

Anna M. Potanina

Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education

Email: a.m.potan@gmail.com

junior researcher, Department of Psychology of Self-regulation

9 Mokhovaya St, bldg 4, Moscow, 125009, Russian Federation

Varvara I. Morosanova

Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education

Email: morosanova@mail.ru

сorresponding member of Russian Academy of Education, Doctor of Psychology, Full Professor, is Head of the Department of Psychology of Self-regulation

9 Mokhovaya St, bldg 4, Moscow, 125009, Russian Federation

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