An Overview of Learning Motivation Among Working Students During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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10.2991/assehr.k.210805.207How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Working students, learning motivation

Abstract

Motivation to learn is a drive within individuals which directs him or her to learn something new. Working students who study while working are required to be able to carry out their duties and responsibilities properly, starting from time management, between the time spent at the college and at the working place. This study is aimed to find out the learning motivation of the working students. This research uses criterion sampling technique in selecting four participants. The research was conducted from September 2020 to December 2020, followed by the in-depth interviews with the four participants. The results of the study indicates that all participants still have motivation to learn both intrinsically and extrinsically even though they have to strictly manage their time between working and studying, to earn a living and to master new knowledge applicable before getting a job, but one of the participants had a poor grades at college because of working.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Pauline Pangestika Hermawan
AU  - Niken Widi Astuti
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/08
TI  - An Overview of Learning Motivation Among Working Students During the Covid-19 Pandemic
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics, Business, Social, and Humanities (ICEBSH 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1322
EP  - 1327
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210805.207
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210805.207
ID  - Hermawan2021
ER  -