September 2025 - Mr Brown

Evaluating the lure hypothesis in the classroom

28/09/2025 / MA work / Character education, Extrinsic rewards, Intrinsic motivation, Paradox of moral education, Psychology, Research methods, Self-Determination Theory, Virtue ethics

Below you’ll find my MA dissertation. This one has been a long time coming! The central question is: Can extrinsic rewards be used to induce intrinsic motivation for virtuous behaviour? I first wrote about this controversial question in the final essay of my PGCE in 2022, and then in the first, second, third, and fifth […]

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